NSW to make maths mandatory for students in years 11 and 12 | jordsbaker
The NSW government will make maths compulsory for year 11 and 12 students under a plan to ensure school graduates have key numeracy skills, but has stopped short of making it mandatory for the HSC.
This year almost a quarter of HSC candidates opted against maths. Many maths experts are worried about the declining interest and the drop in senior students taking on higher-level courses. The challenge would be finding teachers, Dr Wilson warned. "We don't have any data on maths teachers, to say who they are, where they are, who is out of [their teaching] area," she said.
The head of Sydney University's school of maths, Professor Jacqui Ramagge, welcomed any effort to increase the numeracy skills of the population, but she would like to see maths made compulsory for the HSC.
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