The Post 16 Landscape Level 3 Core Maths Martin Newton website emailcmsp@cfbt.com...

The Post 16 LandscapeLevel 3 Core Maths

Martin Newton

website https://www.ncetm.org.uk/coremaths email cmsp@cfbt.com email martin.newton@stokecoll.ac.uk

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

mathematics Dec 2012▪ Expert panel report on core mathematics, Oct

2013

Technical guidance for Core Maths qualifications

▪ Published July 2014 after consultation from April 2014

▪ 180 guided learning hours

▪ Up to 80% Higher level content from the 2015 GCSE

▪ At least 20% level 3 content

▪ Problem solving approaches

▪ Terminal assessment

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb said:

▪ Strong maths skills are an essential part of our plan for education and are also vitally important to our economy.

▪ England has been falling behind other countries’ maths performance, ...

▪ 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 Organisation

AO name

Name of Qualification Website

AQA Mathematical Studies

Core Maths Summary

City & Guilds

Using and

Applying Mathematics

Core Maths Summary

Edexcel Mathematics

in Context

Core Maths Summary

Eduqas/ WJEC

Mathematics for Work and Life

Core Maths Summary

OCR

Quantitative Reasoning (MEI )

(H866)

Quantitative Problem Solving (MEI) (H867)

Core Maths Summary

Awarding Organisations

UCAS tariff for Core Maths qualifications

Core Maths Support Programme CMSP

January 2015:▪ Sector led initiative with 26 Partner Schools &

Colleges

▪ 30 Core Maths Lead Teachers and Tutors

▪ 153 Early Adopter Teaching Projects (78 schools, 3 UTC, 15 SFC, 51 FE Colleges, 6 TechBacc)

▪ 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

▪ ‘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

▪ The aspiration that the vast majority of students continue with their maths education post-16 will be achieved in two stages:

▪ Stage 1Offering Core Maths qualifications

▪ Stage 2Delivering 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

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

▪ On-line maths lesson On-line maths lesson▪ 300 at on-line lesson▪ Based on Mock election