Studying Maths

At the moment in England, those students who didn't get the equivalent of a GCSE old C grade in Y11 have to do GCSE maths in school or college because they can't leave school/college/apprenticeship until aged 18. Wales/Scotland/NI are different.
Maths A level has always been very popular, so that's the 2 ends of the market catered for.
In the 1980s, we had a middling qualification, CEE, certificate in extended education, but it died a death (GCSE? National Curriculum? don't know). We will need a recognised qualification to fill the gap, suitable for smart kids doing other A levels, and teachers to teach it.

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I haven’t even got GCE maths. In my day, it was possible to read English at university without it, providing you had Latin GCE, and that’s what I did.

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The maths I studied at school was Algebra, Trigonometry and Logarithms, none of which I have ever used in real life. Thankfully other knowledge I did acquire at school has proved very useful, the one subject neglected at schools is finance and handling money, teaching that would be far more useful than maths.

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Do we know what the non-Maths students studied instead?

Could you get the same result with Music or languages I wonder?

I find it hard to believe that learning a language does less for brain plasticity than Maths.

Not to mention that being taught something is not the same as learning it. I spent several years at Secondary school avoiding studying Maths. In spite of being present in the classroom ?

“I find it hard to believe that learning a language does less for brain plasticity than Maths.

So do I. In particular if it’s Greek and Latin.

I hated maths as a kid and still do, numbers totally confuse me!