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Don’t write teens off as math failures

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See the issue that is current in the UK:

GCSE maths exams are deliberately designed to fail a third of all young people, according to the education charity National Numeracy.

The charity wants to see a new benchmark – a numeracy equivalent of the driving test – which sets out the essentials of practical maths that teenagers will need for adult life and the workplace. Unlike GCSE, this would be something that all young people would be expected to achieve as part of their maths education and that could be embedded within the existing curriculum and exam pathway.

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Should people be held back because they have dyscalculia?

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It is an interesting question, brought up by a petition that is doing the rounds in the UK. Someone wants to move forward in her career but needs a level of math that she won’t probably ever attain with her dyscalculia. Her mother calls it discrimination but how about if you really need a certain command of math for that particular career?

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The importance of math in medicine and your health

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Breast Cancer Patients Need to Know the Numbers for Treatment Decisions Risk calculations, treatment evaluations, and assessing the odds of a medication’s side effects are all part of the process of deciding which treatment is best for breast and other cancers.

But not everyone is good at math, and sometimes this process can be intimidating. For these patients, decision science research can offer well-founded advice on how to evaluate the information and make knowledgeable decisions.

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