[Maths-Education] The resource for the course

[Graham Griffiths]

Despite the insistance upon qualifications for further study / employment?

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> >A very sharp distinction is being made here - are these intended to be
> >mutually exclusive categories?
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> When the only high stakes exam was at 16 I could imagine there could 
> be some merging of these categories.  Sadly, now there is testing and 
> preparation for testing and mock testing and 'springboard' and 
> 'catchup' and 'boosting', not to mention selection tests for 
> selective schools, 'optional' (oh yeah?) testing and progress 
> testing, and all kinds of other words for not allowing learners to 
> reflect, dwell and otherwise bask and swim around in mathematics ... 
> and a growing underclass of children for whom none of this is helping 
> them learn maths .... I am inclined to the view that the only 
> humanistic and sane choice is to take the second category and stick 
> to it for all learners.
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> Anne W.
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