🇬🇧 Maths degrees are becoming less accessible – and this is a problem for business, government and innovation
"Research carried out in 2019 by King’s College London and Ipsos found that half of the working age population had the numeracy skills expected of a child at primary school. Just as worrying was that despite this, 43% of those polled said “they would not like to improve their numeracy skills”."
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@bibliolater if one assimilates numeracy with numerics then one is only covering a small portion of maths. The world of analysis and algebra is missing, which as the article mentioned is used in other sciences.
@barefootstache You are right in saying that numerics is only a small portion of maths. I would contend that for most of the general public, out of all of the mathematics they are taught in primary or secondary education it is the main one that sticks in the mind. While there are many fields in maths the one that has a lasting impact for many people is numeracy.