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who says mathematics counts?

MICHAEL PENNY (Secretary of the Berean Publishing Trust Chairman of the Industrial and Scientific Team of the Working Mathematics Group Director of Mathematical and Business Studies at Queen Mary's Sixth Form College)

Industrial and Commercial Training

ISSN: 0019-7858

Article publication date: 1 April 1982

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Abstract

In March 1978 the Labour Government announced that it was to establish an Inquiry to consider the teaching of Mathematics in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales, with particular regard to its effectiveness and intelligibility, and to the match between the mathematical curriculum and the skills required in further education, employment and adult life generally. There was a new breeze blowing from the office of the Secretary of State for Education and Science. Schools Council, the customary mouthpiece of the Department of Education and Science, had produced numerous working papers containing many suggestions about what should be taught in schools and how it should be taught.

Citation

PENNY, M. (1982), "who says mathematics counts?", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 117-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003876

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MCB UP Ltd

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