Mark Wadsworth: "More primary maths experts needed"

Thursday, 20 March 2008

The problem is, as a result of the long term decline in standards, they have no idea how many.

malpas said...: Why an 'expert' to teach primary maths?
If you have ten fingers can you not just build on that?
Or must everything hav3 an electronic machine these days.; 20 March 2008 at 22:25
Simon Fawthrop said...: Its not often I agree with any politician, let alone a Labour minister, but I'm with Jim on this one:

"That view was endorsed by schools minister Jim Knight: "Why is it that this is one of the few countries where it is acceptable, fashionable even, to declare that you are useless at maths? "

It makes me cringe when I hear MP's and celebs almost bragging about their ignorance at maths.

I was also a bit surprised to see that the maths entry level to teacher training is a C at GCSE. Surely we need numerate teachers no matter what they are teaching?; 21 March 2008 at 09:11

Thursday, 20 March 2008