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The Mathematical Needs of School Leavers

Gordon Knight, Greg Arnold, Michael Carter, Peter Kelly and Gillian Thornley
Abstract: 

Adults were interviewed to discover the mathematics they actually used in their everyday life and their workplaces. School mathematics is relatively unimportant but estimating, optimising, and using calculators are.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0966
Journal issue: 
set 1994: no. 1

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