Last year, 23 per cent of children in England failed to achieve the expected level in mathematics at the end of the Early Years Foundation Stage, the same level as in 2014. An All-Party Parliamentary Group for maths looking at how to raise standards of teaching in pre-schools that year heard that ‘many working with under-fives are mathematically under-qualified and unconfident’ and had a negative outlook on the subject.
As one of the experts feeding into the group put it, ‘one of the best ways to produce children who have maths difficulties is “to employ adults who know little and preferably hate mathematics”’.
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