The Mathematical Needs of School Leavers

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Adults were interviewed to discover the mathematics they actually used in their everyday life and their workplaces. School mathematics is relatively unimportant but estimating, optimising, and using calculators are.

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Knight, G., Arnold, G., & Carter, M. (1994). The Mathematical Needs of School Leavers. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 1, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0966
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