Lone Study “Disaster” for Maths: The Government’s Numeracy Task Force Has Unveiled the Final Version of Its Rescue Plan

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 36 Issue 2, June 1999

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Lone Study “Disaster” for Maths: The Government’s Numeracy Task Force Has Unveiled the Final Version of Its Rescue Plan

Nicholas Pyke

Letting children work on their own has been a disaster for mathematics teaching, according to the task force charged with devising a national maths strategy. Even now, some children spend four-fifths of a lesson working by themselves, said Professor David Reynolds, chair of the British government’s numeracy task force.