The PM is planning to turn the country around by making everyone study Maths until their ‘A’ levels. Nothing wrong with that, although where he is going to find the extra maths teachers is far from clear.
The trouble for the PM is that although it would help the UK economy in the long term if people were better at maths, that is not what is worrying them.
The NHS is crumbling fast and the reason is clear to anyone with a basic knowledge of maths, the UK spends far less on its health service than other countries, maybe 2% of GDP less than needed. That situation has got worse because of the under investment in the health system during 12 years of Tory rule.
The Tories are now talking about current spending levels being far too generous and unsustainable and the NHS being a money pit.
They are trying to move the argument onto privatising it, when the vast majority just want it to work better.
This is what intellectual dead ends like austerity (and Brexit) do, you run out of money as growth and productivity stall. Then you blame the spending departments and try to cut again.
The answer is obvious to anyone who can count.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
I don’t see any benefit of forcing everyone to learn standard deviation and other specialised forms of mathematics as rote given that 95+% will never refer to it again in their lives.
It will remove the individual’s preference for attaining expertise and instead tether numero-dyslexics and others who have difficulty with numerology to an extra two years of associating education with intellectual suffering…
More valuable things might be educating people what APR means and what a credit score is; the benefits and compromises of living in a democratic society; or perhaps most pertinently, the Law, since we live under a rule of it, and ignorance of it is no defence, it should be mandatory at GCSE level.