"Too much time spent looking at the quality of school lunches and not enough on maths and English, " Sir Michael said.
Mr Blunkett could certainly regard these results as justification for his tough targets and firm focus on maths, science and English.
It wasn't mathematical backwardness that led geographers away from this approach but the conviction that to rely too heavily on maths was a dead end.
This mystery aroused me when I was away from him, and made it all the harder to stop thinking about him when I was supposed to be concentrating on maths.
However, Mr Hammer's technique, based on maths that was invented in the 1930s and was first used to work out how to shoot down German aircraft, requires only seven trials.
Ofsted's report on maths teaching, published at the end of last year, said too much of it was "taught to the test" and that this did not equip pupils for their futures.
Mr Carberry said that the CBI supported the government's move to make maths more demanding, as well as plans for the majority of pupils to carry on with maths up to the age of 18.
Full marks on the maths to our physicists but the interpretation could do with a little polishing.
Comedian Dave Gorman was on track for a career as a mathematician: an A grade at "A level", an "S" level and a place on a maths degree course at Manchester University.
Ofsted also said that the money the government makes available for summer schools to help disadvantaged children bridge the gap between primary and secondary education could be better spent on extra maths and English classes once they start secondary school.
BBC: Schools could do better with pupil premium, says Ofsted
Maths departments are so keen on candidates with further maths that they often accept them with lower grades in other subjects.
The current test includes verbal and non-verbal reasoning, which are not taught in primary schools and need coaching but the new test may drop that element and place the emphasis on English and Maths, which are taught in classrooms, BBC South East Today's political correspondent John Young explained.
The poorest children are twice as likely to struggle at maths early on at primary school, research suggests.
That was enough for the new computers to have had a large (and apparently malign) influence on fourth-grade maths scores.
An early check of the A-level further maths paper on 31 May found an error and the paper was returned to the printers to be altered.
On average, girls' maths scores were, as expected, lower than those of boys.
The proposed free school would focus on science, technology, maths and engineering.
As Ms Churchman explains, modern maths teaching focuses on the key concepts, and a renewed emphasis on mental methods and strategies as opposed to recall.
The activists who trooped to London's Connaught Rooms on a wet Saturday applauded the traditionalist elements of David Cameron's address, such as the return of competitive school sport and a ban on calculators in primary school maths tests.
And that's not all, you've still got your history, and your maths to catch up on!
It was our maths, but crunched on numbers provided by the First Minister.
No real surprise there, perhaps, though it is interesting to see perceptions on the ground reflected in the maths.
On the curriculum is English, maths, history, geography, combined sciences and French with the option of taking International GCSEs.
He won the applause of his peers with his work on cobordism, a branch of maths that involves algebra and geometry.
They found children who were good at maths at 10 went on to earn 7% more at 30 than an "otherwise identical" child.
The students at the JCB academy will focus on key areas including languages, maths and physics, as well as extra subjects, such as maths for engineering.
But the university has denied reports it will go on to set papers for a new maths A-level.
BBC: Cambridge University funded to offer A-level maths help
People who were good at maths as young children go on to earn more than other similar children by the time they are 30, a study has found.
The authors say that rather than making the qualification compulsory the challenge is to provide a "clear and attractive alternative" for students who achieve good grades in GCSE maths but do not currently go on to study AS or A-level mathematics.
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