Well over 50% of adults in the UK have a maths attainment level below that expected of primary school children.
Over 75% of children who “fail” their GCSE maths at 16 have still not achieved it by age 18.
How has such systemic failure been allowed to prevail for so many decades?
What are the social consequences in this increasingly mathematically tyrannical age?
How do you start to contemplate a solution to such an immense problem?
Peter Whitehead is the head of maths at the Working Men’s College in Camden, an adult education institution established in the 1850s by Christian socialists. He works with hundreds of adults each year, supporting them to overcome the mathematical challenges they have faced all their lives.
Before education, he studied mathematics at Cambridge University and worked as a consultant investment actuary for over twenty years.
This is the second talk on Mathematics education but I hope you will find it neatly complements the study of international comparisons as outlined by Professor Hodgen.
Free to all
Doors open at 7pm – no need to book to attend in the Victoria Hall
Start 8pm
Please book to receive a link to view at home