📐 Too many people hate maths for Rishi Sunak’s plans to make everyone study the subject until 18 work, experts have told MPs
“It kind of says to young people it’s ok to be bad at maths, and it’s ok to write yourselves off and you’ll never need it again,” she said.in the education sector could see teachers specialised in other subjects dragged in to teach post-16 maths. They suggested this would likely reduce the quality of maths teaching, and thereby undermine the aims of expanding the subject until 18.
He claimed that most teachers would “roll their eyes” at the plans “because we haven’t got enough teachers to teach the mandatory maths that we have at the moment”. “We are in the depths of a retention and recruitment crisis. Our history and PE teachers are teaching other subjects and our curriculum is being narrowed. DT, music, art and drama – all of those are being concentrated [for] English and maths because we don’t have enough teachers in those areas,” she said.
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