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Study says that children's poor maths skills could be costing taxpayer £2.4bn a year.
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Last updated 05 January 2009 by NCETM_administrator
A report by accountants KPMG for the Every Child a Chance Trust tracked children with poor numeracy, and has found that they are more likely to be truant, to be drawn into crime, and claim more benefits and pay less tax later in life. 

The report, The long term cost of numeracy difficulties, estimates that some seven million adults in the UK have the mathematical abilities of a nine-year old, at best.

Click here to read the report, and read more coverage from these websites:

BBC Education

EducationGuardian

Financial Times

Metro

The Independent

Plus Magazine

The Times



 

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05 January 2009 17:51
This reinforces the research that I am doing about basic subtraction. In our locality feeder schools and a large comprehensive school all suffer with between 15 -33% of children not achieving a basic understanding of subtraction taught at key stage one and two. These children suffer with low self esteem as they are aware that they have 'failed' in maths and do not want to repeat the failure and so develop avoidance tactics, ill health, challenging behaviour or copying a friend to appear less unintelligent. We need to improve the education of these children as every child matters. They need to be able to develop maths not for passing exams but for life.
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