It’s something we grapple with a lot at Twelve where we work for clients in the academic and career sectors. I was reminded of the issue again with the headline today “children over reliant on calculators in maths lessons” and I wondered just how many people really are comfortable with maths?
If we take having GCSE maths grade C to be an indicator of ‘being comfortable’ with maths than the amazing truth is that it’s around 54 per cent of the population.
And if we combine being ‘comfortable’ with maths and the written word (English GCSE grade C) then it’s just 18 per cent of the population.
That’s really is something to think about……
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