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Teaching Mathematics and its Applications 1997 16(4):171-176; doi:10.1093/teamat/16.4.171
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You can't make a Silk Purse out of a Sow's Ear

Why we must say No to the 1997 subject core and its rules

ROGER PORKESS

Roger Porkess works full time as Project Leader for MEI. Now in its eigth year, MEI Structured Mathematics was the first AS/A-level scheme in any subject to be based on Credit Accumulation. He has taught in a variety of institutions in this country and overseas and is now based at the Centre for Teaching Mathematics in the University of Plymouth

Address for correspondence: Centre for Teaching Mathematics, University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK.
The author looks at the problems that the 1997 mathematics AS/A-level subject core, and the associated rules, caused syllabus developers. Areas of concern are the content of the core; the partial calculator ban; the 40/60 split between the marks for AS and A2 modules; the rules for modular syllabuses. Many of the problems are unresolved and the author recommends that the new core should be abandoned in favour of the existing one.


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