Should students study maths until 18?...

This is in response to Carol Voderman's view, that  students should continue maths until the age of 18: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14437665

I  agree with what Carol Vorderman has to say about the importance of Maths in our daily lives and therefore the consequences it could bring about to those who don’t value maths in education, especially being part of a growing economy. According to Susan Anderson: ‘Businesses are most concerned about basic levels of numeracy and it's alarming that more than one in five 16-19 year olds are considered functionally innumerate ’, therefore Carol Voderman is completely right, However there shouldn’t be a need to continue maths for another two years as teachers and the school are responsible to teach their students maths and fully prepare them with what will be needed as well as making students aware of its uses, in the future, and if this was done properly at a younger age then fewer pupils would be innumerate at 16. Forcing students to study maths would be completely pointless, if they don’t understand the need of it, and so it would be more useful if they learnt how to apply maths in real life situations. 

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