Carol Vorderman, the government's new weapon against poor arithmetic, has said children should be made to study maths until they leave school at 18. Carol says 22 per cent of pupils aged 16-19 are 'functionally innumerate', with no basic grasp of maths and arithmetic, and that it is 'unacceptable' that just 15 per cent of pupils take maths after their GCSEs at 16. "Some children are never taught maths by a maths teacher."
[Update for 8 Aug 2011]
Carol Vorderman, the government's new weapon against poor arithmetic, has said children should be made to study maths until they leave school at 18. Carol says 22 per cent of pupils aged 16-19 are 'functionally innumerate', with no basic grasp of maths and arithmetic, and that it is 'unacceptable' that just 15 per cent of pupils take maths after their GCSEs at 16. "Some children are never taught maths by a maths teacher."
MrNChoudhury 6 months ago