ACME response to draft primary curriculum
17 August 2012
On 11 June 2012, a draft National Curriculum for primary
mathematics was published by the Department for Education for
informal consultation, as a precursor to a more formal consultation
in early 2013, and publication of the final version in September
2013. ACME was asked to lead on gathering the views of the
mathematics community on the draft, and has used that feedback to
inform its response.
ACME's submission is presented in two parts:
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Part A provides overarching messages and recommendations,
highlighting the most important aspects to be addressed before
formal consultation in 2013.
- Part B
provides a collation of the detailed comments made by respondents
and by ACME on the statements included in the curriculum
document.
ACME's response was informed by workshops, e-seminars and a
written consultation with the mathematics community. We received 99
responses to the consultation, which were subsequently summarised
by Professor Anne Haworth. The summary of the responses, as well as
the responses themselves, have been shared with the Department for
Education.
The summary and a collated document of the responses are
available below: