"Bill Grey" wrote in
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"Tom" wrote in message
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I've commented elsewhere about primary teachers not
knowing what 1+2*3 is, and on the disappearance of
calculus from GCSE/O-level maths
The Calculus was never part of "O" level maths in 1952 unfortunately.
Maybe, maybe not.
In 1974 it was on some, but certainly not all, syllabuses
(syllabi?
When doing A-level double maths, we did many questions from
past papers back to the early '50s. We felt the questions
from those papers were more difficult than those from the
more recent exams.
All of which is another reason why I'm loathe to presume
that there is necessarily a wholesale dumbing down of content.