Stephen Lee and Terry Dawson, Mathematics in Education and Industry, UK
Core Maths is a general title for a range of Level 3 (post-16) maths qualifications that were introduced for first examination in 2016. It is intended for students who have passed GCSE mathematics at grade 4 or better, but who have not chosen to study AS or A-level mathematics (see Dawson et al., 2016; Baldwin and Glaister, 2018). The qualification was developed with the intention that it should be suitable for over 250,000 students in post-16 education, and over 9,000 students studied Core Maths in 2019 (Mathieson et al., in press).
Background
In 2016, the government commissioned Professor Sir Adrian Smith to undertake an external review into post-16 mathematics. Core Maths was widely discussed in the final report (Smith, 2017). Recommendation 9 stated that there should be a centrally funded Core Maths (support) programme, to help to embed the new qualification and upskill large numbers of teachers of other qua
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