Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will announce an expert-led review of how to implement his plan to ensure that all students learn math, reports The Independent.
The newspaper said Sunak will give a speech on Monday calling for an end to the “anti-math mentality” to help boost the economy and criticizing the “cultural notion that it’s okay to be bad at math” that puts children “at a disadvantage” without giving them the analytical skills they need for the modern workplace.
It will announce peer review to ensure that all students in England can study some form of mathematics until the age of 18 without making A-level mathematics compulsory.
The UK remains one of the few countries in the world that does not require children to learn some form of mathematics before the age of 18, making it one of the countries with the least good basic arithmetic skills among members of the Economic Cooperation Organization. and development.
According to Downing Street, about a third of students fail a math test, and more than eight million adults have math skills below those expected of a nine-year-old.
The prime minister pledged for the first time in January to make math compulsory until age 18, stressing the importance of arithmetic in professions that rely more and more on data and statistics.
Source: The Independent