Our maths incompetency doesn't add up

Professor Geoff Prince

By Professor Geoff Prince
Community contribution / December 12, 2017

“Mathematical competence is enabling” – we might quibble about the meaning of ‘competence’ but the statement, almost a platitude, has wide public and professional acceptance.

Flip it and we are suddenly confronted with: “mathematical incompetence is disabling”.

This demands the identification of sectors of Australian ...

This story appeared in the December 2017 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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