Maths In School

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problems. Mathematics has always been used in human life even when people do not realise that they are using it. Maths is used in simply counting the change that is in a person's pocket to trying to work out the angle that is needed to reverse a car into a parking space, maths is used throughout almost all subjects in life and all situations in life as without people noticing they are using maths at a basic level. Furthermore, maths has been used to help develop other subjects like science. Without maths, science would not have been able to have developed to the level that it is now.

`On the front is a timeline featuring prominent figures who developed the use of statistics, with accompanying teachers' notes on the back. The timeline looks at landmark events in social science from 1662, when John Graunt published a mortality table, to 2009 when Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published a work using statistics to link inequality and social problems.' (National Stem Centre, ...

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is not solely about the teachers reaching standards, it also includes the standards that children need to be at as they develop through the education system. Despite the national curriculum being a set of standards that all public schools have to follow, academies and private schools do not have to follow these standards. These types of schools can teach their own curriculum so long as they teach a balanced curriculum of English, maths and science.

`This approach allows a stronger vocational focus in some cases, or more time to address basic literacy and numeracy needs in others. It has permitted a richer mix of subjects, and a wider range of qualifications' (The Key, ...

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