HC Deb 07 December 1976 vol 922 c131W
37. Miss Fookes

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will include in her investigation into educational standards the value of new mathematics as a preparation for university courses involving sound knowledge of mathematics.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Mathematics in relation to the teaching of the skills required to pursue profitably particular courses of further and higher education will be considered in the present consultations on the curriculum and standards. It will continue to be for the schools themselves to assess the potential value of new approaches to mathematics teaching.