The Post 16 Landscape
Level 3 Core Maths
Martin Newton
website
email
email
https://www.ncetm.org.uk/coremaths
[email protected]
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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
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mathematics Dec 2012
Expert panel report on core mathematics, Oct
2013
Technical guidance for Core
Maths qualifications
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Published July 2014 after
consultation from April 2014
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180 guided learning hours
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Up to 80% Higher level
content from the 2015 GCSE
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At least 20% level 3 content
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Problem solving approaches
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Terminal assessment
School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said:
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Strong maths skills are an essential part of our plan
for education and are also vitally important to our
economy.
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England has been falling behind other countries’ maths
performance, ...
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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 Organisations
Awarding
Organisation
AO
name
Name of Qualification
Website
AQA
Mathematical Studies
Core Maths
Summary
City &
Guilds
Edexcel
Using and
Applying
Mathematics
Mathematics
in Context
Eduqas/
WJEC
Mathematics for
Work and Life
OCR
Quantitative
Reasoning (MEI)
(H866)
Quantitative Problem
Solving (MEI) (H867)
Core Maths
Summary
Core Maths
Summary
Core Maths
Summary
Core Maths
Summary
UCAS tariff for Core Maths qualifications
Core Maths Support Programme CMSP
January 2015:
▪ Sector led initiative with 26 Partner Schools &
Colleges
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30 Core Maths Lead Teachers and Tutors
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153 Early Adopter Teaching Projects (78
schools, 3 UTC, 15 SFC, 51 FE Colleges, 6
TechBacc)
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3500 students
Potential cohort - 250,000 students a year!
CMSP website
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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
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‘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
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The aspiration that the vast majority of students
continue with their maths education post-16 will
be achieved in two stages:
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Stage 1
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Stage 2
Offering Core Maths qualifications
Delivering 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
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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
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On-line maths lesson On-line maths lesson
300 at on-line lesson
Based on Mock election