posted on 2006-05-25, 15:45authored byDavid R. Pidcock, Aruna S. Palipana, David Green
The Smith Inquiry (1) makes the following points:
Many important stakeholders believe there to be a crisis in the teaching and learning of mathematics.
Mathematics is a major intellectual discipline in its own right, as well as providing the underpinning language for the rest of science and engineering.
We currently face a situation of long term decline in the numbers of young people continuing to study mathematics post–16.
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PIDCOCK, D.R., PALIPANA, A.S. and GREEN, D.R. 2004. The Role of CAA in Helping Engineering Undergraduates to Learn Mathematics. IN: Proceedings of the 8th CAA Conference, Loughborough: Loughborough University.