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The Post 16 LandscapeLevel 3 Core Maths
Martin Newton
website https://www.ncetm.org.uk/coremaths email [email protected] email [email protected]
A Core Maths question
4 (c) Estimate how far a person is likely to walk in their lifetime.
Show details of your assumptions and calculations.
[6 marks]
(AQA: Mathematical Studies)
Background: Expert panel advice
▪ Nuffield report – ‘Is the UK an outlier?’ 2010▪ CBI Report - Making it all add up August 2010▪ ACME reports – proposals for post-16
mathematics Dec 2012▪ Expert panel report on core mathematics, Oct
2013
Technical guidance for Core Maths qualifications
▪ Published July 2014 after consultation from April 2014
▪ 180 guided learning hours
▪ Up to 80% Higher level content from the 2015 GCSE
▪ At least 20% level 3 content
▪ Problem solving approaches
▪ Terminal assessment
School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said:
▪ Strong maths skills are an essential part of our plan for education and are also vitally important to our economy.
▪ England has been falling behind other countries’ maths performance, ...
▪ Only a fifth of pupils in England continue to study maths at any level after achieving a GCSE - the lowest of 24 developed countries.
Awarding Organisation
AO name
Name of Qualification Website
AQA Mathematical Studies
Core Maths Summary
City & Guilds
Using and
Applying Mathematics
Core Maths Summary
Edexcel Mathematics
in Context
Core Maths Summary
Eduqas/ WJEC
Mathematics for Work and Life
Core Maths Summary
OCR
Quantitative Reasoning (MEI )
(H866)
Quantitative Problem Solving (MEI) (H867)
Core Maths Summary
Awarding Organisations
UCAS tariff for Core Maths qualifications
Core Maths Support Programme CMSP
January 2015:▪ Sector led initiative with 26 Partner Schools &
Colleges
▪ 30 Core Maths Lead Teachers and Tutors
▪ 153 Early Adopter Teaching Projects (78 schools, 3 UTC, 15 SFC, 51 FE Colleges, 6 TechBacc)
▪ 3500 students
Potential cohort - 250,000 students a year!
Current take up for Core Maths by sector
Type of institution No teaching Core Maths
Total number of institutions
Percentage coverage
Schools with sixth forms 79 2104 4%
Sixth Form Colleges 15 100 15%
FE Colleges 56 220 25%
Studio schools 3 39 8%
Total 153 2463 6%
Core maths at Stoke College
▪ Part of ‘early adopters’ 2014▪ Piloted in specific vocational areas▪ 2 cohorts of 15 learners▪ Statistics, Financial maths and Fermi estimation▪ Learners have done an ‘Apprentice activity’,
looked at APR, AER, budgeting and statistical investigations.
Learner quotes
▪ ‘Now I know why it costs so much to stay in a hotel’
▪ ‘I’m not getting a loan it costs too much and never getting a pay day loan, I’ll borrow from Mum and Dad’!!
▪ Text to Mum:▪ ‘I don’t want a car it costs too much with
insurance, petrol and everything, and it’s too stressful’.
Core Maths implementation
▪ The aspiration that the vast majority of students continue with their maths education post-16 will be achieved in two stages:
▪ Stage 1Offering Core Maths qualifications
▪ Stage 2Delivering Core Maths ‘at scale’
for GCSE grade C+ students not doing A or AS level.
Real Maths Fest
▪ Maths event at Stoke College Real maths Fest▪ To promote maths in a fun way and showing real
world applications.▪ Hands on Activities▪ Activity hosts from NCETM, WMCETT, CMSP,CIMT,
OR Society, FMSP, Local Schools, College Vocational staff and learners.
▪ 400 at Real maths fest
Real Maths Fest
▪ On-line maths lesson On-line maths lesson▪ 300 at on-line lesson▪ Based on Mock election