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The article focuses on the policy documents published in the first week of December of 2019 in Great Britain. "What School Life Means for Students' Lives," focuses on reading, math and science subjects. "4th Global Report on Adult Learning and Education: Leave No One Behind: Participation, Equity and Inclusion," is a report on adult education provision. "General Election 2019: An Analysis of Manifesto Plans for Education," analyzes the manifesto education plans by British political parties.

The article looks at the problems in the Advanced Subsidiary (AS), General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) and Advanced level (A-level) math examinations at the time when Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove is trying to reform the Great Britain (GB) examination system. Students, teachers and parents, it says, complained about errors in the exam paper and the math questions that were impossible to answer. It also notes the replacement exam paper from Edexcel.

The article presents some basic concepts from knot theory as a natural extension of commonly-taught geometric ideas in Great Britain. Accordingly, the paper discusses the three basic knot theory activities that are appropriate for elementary grade children. The paper also suggests that students must try to come up with their own knots by starting with an actual rope, or else with flat drawings and experiment it with different crossing combinations to see if new knots can be discovered.

We reflect on our experience in Japan and the UK in raising mathematics funding, from the public and private sectors, and establishing new mathematics institutes. We hope that some of this information and relevant examples will be of use for mathematicians in other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is a year since the Statistics Authority came into being. Official statistics are now supposed to be independent and on course to be trustworthy—and transformed to serve not just government but society as a whole. Has it all worked out? Ian Maclean of the Statistics Users Forum says a start has been made, but progress has been slower than hoped. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author describes his categorization of practical mathematical tasks using drama, body maths and a host of outlandish props in Great Britain. Accordingly, the author discusses the categories in this teaching method and how it can be effectively applied in the classroom. He concluded that this teaching method is an invitation to the classroom teacher to design their own kinaesthetic and visual lessons by dipping, in an inventive way, into the categories presented in the paper.

Reports that examination scripts have had to be quickly stapled back together after an experiment in electronic marking of mathematics papers was abandoned in Great Britain. Pupils' answer books; Difficulty for a marker to read part of the top of the script; Reallocation of paper for traditional marking.

The article focuses on various discussion related to education in Great Britain's House of Lords. For mathematics teaching, Baroness Sharp of Guildford asked the government about plans to implement the recommendations of the Smith Report on the teaching of mathematics. For vocational education Baroness Brigstocke asked the government about steps taken to improve vocational education in schools. For Higher Education Bill, the order in which clauses will be taken in committee was agreed on April 22, 2004.

The article presents several documents from various sources in Great Britain. The document "School PE and Sport Survey," for Department for Education and Skills, is the third annual survey of school sport in England. The document "Assessing Scientific, Reading and Mathematical Literacy: A Framework for PISA 2006," by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, is part of the International Student Assessment program.

The article focuses on the discussion paper regarding the use and application of mathematics in Great Britain. The nature of mathematics is to provide a cleared and uniform world which involves problem solving moving between the real and mathematical world. The challenge of getting through the curriculum is part of the problem and some teachers have searched easier to stay within the mathematical world of straight calculations rather than staying into plain complexities of problem solving.

The article reports on the number of students who are taking A-level of maths several times to improve their grades, according to the statistics given by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority in Great Britain. According to the report, pupils are resitting A-level maths papers as many as five times in an effort to improve their results.

The article provides information on developing spatial awareness in British education. It was stated that combining spatial awareness with working to improve students' memory would be an effective activity. A demonstration about the multiplication of negative signs in mathematics are presented in this paper.

Presents a survey on the improvement of GSCE mathematics test result in Great Britain according to research published in 'Sunday Times.' Development of marking and grading decisions; Need for the government to develop examination papers; Comparability of standards and fairness for students.

Presents updates on statistics in Great Britain as of March 2004. Joint venture between the Department of Probability and Statistics and the Department of Forensic Pathology at the University of Sheffield in England, to provide a method for statistically quantifying the quality of a match between two images of a face; International Review of Mathematics; Olympic use of the BidIndex computer software produced by GamesBids.com.

Focuses on the views of the opposition on the crisis of education in Great Britain. Increase on the absence of secondary education; Examination on the standard of mathematics; Decrease on the morale of the teachers.

The article reports on the interim findings published by Great Britain's Education Endowment Foundation from a study on the extent to which Key Stage 1 pupils' attainment in reading and maths had been impacted by partial school closures during the first national COVID-19 lockdown, and particularly the effect on disadvantaged pupils. Topics covered include the gap in attainment caused by March 2020 school closures, overall performance of students and the implications for schools and teachers.

The article offers information on Bertrand Arthur William Russell, the third Earl Russell of Great Britain. His grandfather, the first earl, was Prime Minister of England. His parents were ardent freethinkers and campaigners for women's rights. German dictator Adolf Hitler was too much for Russell's pacifism. He supported the Allies in World War II. Russell shed the Victorian optimism that had envisioned a gradual spread of freedom and prosperity and decline of tyranny and injustice. After the World War I, Russell had started a widely publicized progressive school.

The article reports that philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell from Great Britain stated that mathematics, rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty like that of sculpture. Sculpture is widely admired in their societies. According to Russel, there is hardly a public space in their cities that does not boast a sculpture of some sort. And in the 20th century, artists have been exposed even more to mathematical ideas, initially because Victorian mathematicians found ways of visualizing formulae and functions in physical form.

The article discusses various education-related news briefs in Great Britain. It was reported in the newspaper the "Observer," that students who are academically gifted have problems being popular and as a result will pretend to be less intelligent. Another brief discusses the results of a study that examined the impact that pornography has teens' perceptions of sex. The results of an examination of primary schools indicated that progress in reading and mathematics has slowed in Great Britain.

Julian Champkin talks to the driving force behind the Campaign for Real Statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deals with the proposal of Terry Bladen, president of the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers to give students the right to drop their math subjects. Significance of the proposal on schools in Great Britain.