this thread is amended to
This thread is adopted from
Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) of
The Australian National
Uni
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/other/ncms/
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/other/ncms/pockley.pdf
Australian Maths--No Longer
Counts.
The decline of Australian mathematics is bad news for Australia’s
future,
says Prof Peter Hall.--pl read on
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Many SG parents are sending kids to oz to study.
Do they know oz maths is in crisis---serious shortage of maths
teachers.
Number of Statistics departments in uni have been dropping like
a falling
stone.Pl continue to read in the reference.1
Maths is the corner stone of most science subjects.
If a country dunt take the maths seriously,do u think the
country
take other science subjects seriously?
2.since many guys say i am put wall of text.i think i better
stop
and let my learned frens here to explore from my links here.
http://www.review.ms.unimelb.edu.au/Rubinstein.pdf
''To put it another way, in the OECD the average is
around 1% of university graduates are in mathematics and
statistics, while in Australia it’s 0.4%. Now this is leading to a
situation where there are shortages illustrated by reports from a
number of people in industry, from CSIRO, from the Antarctic
division, from various other groups, where groups are unable to
source the types of mathematical sciences graduates that they
want.
In the mining area industry is
looking at going offshore for mathematics expertise, because they
cannot find the expertise within the country and statistics is in
really a difficult situation.''
3.Recent
Maths in crisis as teachers go...private
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25136016-601,00.html
"Students not having access to (higher level maths) in
government schools is really disadvantaging them in a number of
important areas of study," Professor Rubinstein said.
"It is just going to make the skills shortage worse because,
even with the economic downturn, we need to replace our engineers
who are all ageing, and we aren't going to be able to do that if
people aren't doing mathematics at school."
The number of Year 12 students studying advanced maths has
fallen 20 per cent, from 25,000 in 1995 to 20,000 in 2007. The
proportion of Year 12 students studying senior maths has now fallen
from 14 per cent to 10per cent, with the proportion taking
intermediate maths down from 27 per cent to 21 per cent. In
contrast, the proportion studying elementary maths has risen from
37 per cent to 48 per cent.
Mathematical Association of Victoria head Simon Pryor said:
"Year 7 and Year 8 are critical years, especially if you are going
to get kids to love mathematics."
Mr Pryor said principals, hit by limited resources, were
being forced to staff maths classes with teachers lacking maths
qualifications.
news
4.This is not a anti--oz thread.
I am doing a good deed to warn SG parents this is a
challenge
thay have to face.Prepare for it.
reference--
1
''There is no respite on the horizon.
The number of mathematical scientists
working in Australian universities
is today about 65% of what it was
in the mid-1990s. The number of
Honours mathematics and statistics
graduates in the 5 years from 1997 to
2001 was three-quarters what
it had
been in the previous 5 years.
There are now only three statistics
departments remaining in Australia.
Fifteen years ago there were at
least
three times that number, when the
demand by employers for trained statisticians
was far less than at present.''
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/other/ncms/pockley.pdf
Australian Maths--No Longer Counts.
The decline of Australian mathematics is bad news for Australia’s
future,
says Prof Peter Hall.
links
1.
http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/other/ncms/
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The largest survey of Australian teachers and school
principals reveals the teacher shortage is so bad that 43
per cent of secondary school ...
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/16/2139571.htm
"One indicator is that around 43 per cent of secondary school principals
are requiring teachers to teach in areas outside which they are
fully qualified.
"Around half the school
principals we surveyed indicated that in the past 12 months,
they had either a moderate or a major difficulty in attracting
suitable staff."
About 70 per cent of
those surveyed agreed that higher pay, based on competence or extra
qualifications, would retain teachers.
