OPINION: The epic failure at the root of Australia's maths problem
It is a performing art, not a science, requiring a multiplicity of dispositional skills, including communication, empathy, emotional intelligence and listening ability.The paradigms of these often-polarised factors are a small subset of the population, and so excellent mathematics teachers will always be in short supply.
Extension mathematics is considered the domain of prodigies, and at the pinnacle of high-school mathematics in NSW are the HSC extension courses. These courses are vital for our future engineers, scientists and mathematicians , but participation in these courses is pitifully low and has been decreasing for years.
External assessment of these courses is far too hard, resembling more of a mathematics competition or Olympiad rather than an assessment of learning, which has a direct impact on their uptake.
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