The real life mathematics skills students learn on the
new core
maths qualification will benefit not only their future employers but give the students and apprentices
confidence to tackle and solve problems
in their everyday lives too.»
Thus, as a
new generation of children is being asked to learn
math the way leading researchers, the higher education community, and employers say is needed, too many teachers don't have the knowledge or the
confidence to make that happen — particularly
in the lower grades where teachers tend to be generalists.