School inspectors Ofsted has warned that about half of schools need to improve the quality of maths teaching.
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Education Secretary Michael Gove said the decision to fund development of the new curriculum should help revitalise maths teaching in schools and colleges.
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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.
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 Gove said he had asked Ofqual to ensure that there would be new GCSEs in seven subjects - English, maths, the sciences, history and geography - ready for teaching by 2015.
With virtually no state schools providing adequate teaching in science or maths, he says, the country has added to its vast problem of unemployment (every other 18-24-year-old is out of work) a no less vast problem of unemployability.
Mike Lynch's main concern, however, was about the teaching of STEM subjects - science, technology, engineering and maths - in secondary schools where he felt we were falling behind.
Beyond pointing his finger at the problem, though, Mr Sanchez has not said much about how to realise his goal of teaching all children to read and do basic maths by the time they are eight.
England's Department for Children, Schools and Families rejected the claims, saying it had done a great deal to recruit science and maths graduates into teaching.
There will also be new teaching and research facilities for the university's engineering, business and economics, maths, and computer science departments as well as student residential accommodation.
Plans to overhaul England's primary maths teaching would be "too much too soon" and could leave many pupils "by the wayside", a numeracy charity says.
But Mr Gove has also announced that from autumn 2015, teaching will begin for "new" re-vamped GCSE courses in English, maths, the sciences, history and geography.
Thirdly, the new system will demand a lot from schools: teaching a 13-year-old with a talent for maths alongside pupils several years older (and vice versa) is tricky.
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