HC Deb 07 December 1993 vol 234 c157W
Mr. David Porter

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans he has for including the testing of trigonometry at key stage 4; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Robin Squire

From 1994, trigonometry will be examined at key stage 4 through GCSEs prepared to meet national curriculum requirements in mathematics. In a recent report on this year's GCSE, the Office for Standards in Education identified trigonometry as an area of mathematics where there were often high standards of achievement among candidates.