• Question: what was your favourite subject in school

    Asked by eats534eses23 on 24 Nov 2025.
    • Photo: Rachel Edwards

      Rachel Edwards answered on 24 Nov 2025:

      It depended on my age. Early on I loved art the most. By the end of primary school I was really enjoying the fun problems in maths, but still I’d have said art, or cooking, or possibly writing stories. At my first secondary school I discovered science, and had a supportive teacher who could see I liked the physics lessons best, and encouraged me to consider those. I wouldn’t have thought about physics without his support – and it turned out he was very right. I’m now a physicist at a university, and I spend my time doing scientific research, which uses maths as a tool to solve problems.

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    melissau commented on :

    I liked maths and languages, which is a combination that doesn’t always work well together because people think you need different kinds of skills for them. I also like music, but I think that music can be linked to maths, because often music is about patterns of notes, which can be broken down in a similar way to how maths can be. I was lucky enough to have a great maths teacher, who encouraged me to ask questions (no such thing as a stupid question) and she certainly inspired me to study maths up to A Level, even when I moved to a different school aged 16 because my family moved to a different part of the country.