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The Smith Inquiry (1) makes the following points:
Many important stakeholders believe there to be a crisis in the teaching and learning of mathematics.
Mathematics is a major intellectual discipline in its own right, as well as providing the underpinning language for the rest of science and engineering.
We currently face a situation of long term decline in the numbers of young people continuing to study mathematics post–16.