Relevant Reports and Letters

Reports (and letters) relating to mathematics education:

• Letter from ACME to Michael Gove (Secretary of State, DfE) (2010)
  Letter from ACME
  
  
• Letter from the Council for Mathematical Sciences to Ed Balls in support of AEA (2010)
  Letter from the CMS
  
  
• Newton's Mechanics: Who Needs it? Savage and Stripp (2009)
  http://mathstore.ac.uk/repository/NewtonMechReportFinal.pdf
  
  
• Studying STEM: what are the barriers? IET (2008)
  http://www.theiet.org/publicaffairs/education/stem.cfm?type=pdf
  
  
• Relative difficulty of examinations in different subjects, Coe et al (2008)
  http://www.iop.org/Media/Press%20Releases/2008/press_30373.html
  
  
• The hard truth about ‘soft’ subjects, Policy Exchange (2008)
  http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/publications/pdfs/The_Hard_Truth.pdf
  
  
• A ‘state of the nation’ report, The Royal Society (2008)
  http://royalsociety.org/General_WF.aspx?pageid=7321&terms=state+of+nation
  
  
• Mathematics: understanding the score, OFSTED (2008)
  http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Documents-by-type/Thematic-reports/Mathematics-understanding-the-score/(language)/eng-GB
  
  
• Evaluation of participation in A level mathematics: Final report, QCA (2007)
  http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/
  
  
• More mathematically competent undergraduates - Porkess (2007)
  http://mathstore.gla.ac.uk/headocs/7430_porkess_r_moremathcompgrads.pdf
  
  
• MEI support for mathematics at university - Lee and Porkess (2007)
  http://mathstore.gla.ac.uk/headocs/Lee_S.pdf
  
  
• Attracting the best students of mathematics into engineering - report of the MEI/IET Joint Conference (2007)
  http://www.mei.org.uk/files/pdf/MEI_IET_Report.pdf
  
  
• Further Mathematics Network, initial evaluation report, CEM Centre, University of Durham (2006)
  http://www.fmnetwork.org.uk/manager_area/files/other/FMN053.pdf
  
  
• The supply and demand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills in the UK economy, DfES (2006)
  http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/research/programmeofresearch/projectinformation.cfm?projectid=14945&resultspage=1
  
  
• The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Programme Report, DfES/DTI (2006)
  http://www.ima.org.uk/Education/stemprogrammereportoct2006.pdf
  
  
• Evaluation of participation in A level mathematics, Matthews and Pepper (2006)
  http://www.ofqual.gov.uk/files/qca-06-2326-gce-maths-participation.pdf
  
  
• Evaluating mathematics provision for 14-19 year olds, OFSTED (2006)
  http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Publications-and-research/Browse-all-by/Education/Curriculum/Mathematics/Secondary/Evaluating-mathematics-provision-for-14-19-year-olds/(language)/eng-GB
  
  
• Making mathematics count, Smith (2004)
  http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFunction=productdetails&PageMode=publications&ProductId=MMC&
  
  
• 14-19 curriculum and qualifications reform - final report on the working group on 14-19 reform, Tomlinson (2004)
  http://www.dfes.gov.uk/14-19/documents/Final%20Report.pdf
  
  
• Science and innovation investment framework 2004-2014, HM Treasury (2004)
  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/spending_review/spend_sr04/
  associated_documents/spending_sr04_science.cfm
  
  
• Mathematics in the university education of engineers, Kent and Noss (2003)
  http://www.lkl.ac.uk/research/REMIT/Kent-Noss-report-Engineering-Maths.pdf
  (a link to Appendices can be found at the bottom of this page:
  http://www.lkl.ac.uk/research/REMIT/)
  
  
• SET for success: the supply of people with science, technology and mathematics skills, Roberts (2002)
  http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/enterprise_and_productivity/
  research_and_enterprise/ent_res_roberts.cfm
  
  
• Inquiry into A level standards - final report, Tomlinson (2002)
  http://publications.dcsf.gov.uk/default.aspx?PageFunction=productdetails&PageMode=publications&ProductId=TMN2&
  
  
• Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment, Black and Wiliam (2001)
  http://weaeducation.typepad.co.uk/files/blackbox-1.pdf
  
  
• Measuring the Mathematics Problem, Hawkes and Savage (2000)
  http://www.engc.org.uk/documents/Measuring_the_Maths_Problems.pdf
  
  
• Tackling the Mathematics Problem, LMS (1995)
  http://www.lms.ac.uk/policy/tackling_maths_prob.pdf
  
  
• MEI Structured Mathematics Five Years on, MEI (1995)
  http://www.mei.org.uk/files/pdf/5yrson.pdf (20.1MB)
  Due to the large filesize this can be downloaded in 4 sections:
  http://www.mei.org.uk/files/pdf/5yrson_1.pdf (5MB)
  http://www.mei.org.uk/files/pdf/5yrson_2.pdf (5.5MB)
  http://www.mei.org.uk/files/pdf/5yrson_3.pdf (5.5MB)
  http://www.mei.org.uk/files/pdf/5yrson_4.pdf (5.2MB)
  
• Cockcroft report (1982) http://www.dg.dial.pipex.com/documents/ [and other historical reports]