Agreed. I did hear someone argue it might be worthwhile to offer further 'arithmetic' classes for people who are struggling though, that might be worthwhile.
Still, I feel like if you haven't learned basic addition and multiplication by age 16, the issue might be with the way we teach, not how long we do it for.
Depends on the university, but almost all of 'em will only care about your A-Level grades, so if you didn't take Maths, you can fairly easily be mathematically illiterate and get a degree.
Agreed. I did hear someone argue it might be worthwhile to offer further 'arithmetic' classes for people who are struggling though, that might be worthwhile.
Still, I feel like if you haven't learned basic addition and multiplication by age 16, the issue might be with the way we teach, not how long we do it for.
You have to get a C in maths for most uni courses still, right? That seems to imply at least a masic level of artithmetic, statistics, algebra etc.
Depends on the university, but almost all of 'em will only care about your A-Level grades, so if you didn't take Maths, you can fairly easily be mathematically illiterate and get a degree.
A good chunk here will make you take a bridging course where they try to stuff 2 years of education into a week.
Those are available, they're even compulsory everywhere that I know of if your GCSE is below a certain level.