Luke Littler’s sensible plan to show Brit youngsters into maths geniuses with darts at school
Luke Littler reckons we should get more youngsters into darts in schools.
The teenage darts prodigy, 17, said it’ll help get a “whole younger generation coming through”. Other supporters of such a move think it could teach pupils about sportsmanship as well as improving their maths.
Littler, who smashed records to become the youngest Paddy Power PDC World Darts Championship finalist in January this year, told the Daily Star: “It can help with maths. But darts is totally different compared to a normal maths class.
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“But I think it’d be good to get kids into the darts in schools. I say do it. Because we can have a whole younger generation coming through.”
The Nuke was greeted with chants of “you’ve got school in the morning” by the crowd at London’s Alexandra Palace throughout his run at the last world championship.
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He left Padgate Academy in Warrington, Cheshire last year, where staff said they were “incredibly proud” of their former pupil. Littler, who stars in Sky’s upcoming documentary Game Of Throws: Inside Darts, is gearing up for the tournament next month.
Darts player Bhav Patel, 34, said he agreed “100%” that it should be rolled out in classrooms. He said: “With darts, you have that maths background straight away.
“You can teach from soft tip from like three, four-years-old, and you’re teaching basic maths and it goes up and goes up and up. It also teaches you about being competitive, sportsmanship, all that sort of stuff. So it’s got loads of benefit. I’d love it in schools.”
Fingers crossed Labour’s Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson will take on Luke’s hopes. As at the moment kids face yet more equations however the Ms Phillipson doesn’t want to keep cramming to remember them.
Last month Bridget asked regulator Ofqual to consider keeping formulae and equation sheets for GCSE students for the next three years, reported TES magazine.
Bridget Phillipson has written to the Ofqual chief regulator Sir Ian Bauckham to say that GCSE maths, physics and combined science students should not need to memorise formulae and equations in the 2025, 2026 and 2027 exams.
The Education secretary wants children to continue with the arrangements in these GCSE exams, which have been used from 2022 to 2024, providing students with formulae and equation sheets.