Hannah Fry: studying maths until 18 will traumatise teenagers – not transform Britain
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Rishi Sunak has pledged that all school children must continue maths after GCSE level. Mathematician Hannah Fry says it will cause more harm than good.
By Hannah Fry
I have been a professor of mathematics for a decade, and I am well aware that maths has traumatised school children for years. Ask an adult what their childhood memories are of the subject and it is never apathetic. They either loved it or they hated it. Those that hated it remember it with pain.
So I was surprised to learn about...
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