A/Prof David Hunt on Breakfast with Adam Spencer
Published on the 30 Jul 2012
Early last week, Associate Professor David Hunt appeared on Breakfast with Adam Spencer (ABC radio) to discuss the proposed national curriculum.
A/Prof Hunt told Adam Spencer that the prospect of removing three-unit level mathematics from the curriculum was very worrying. He said that thousands of year 11 students in NSW currently take three-unit maths, which covers key areas such as algebra, coordinate geometry, trigonometry and calculus.
He also criticised the proposed introduction of 50% statistics to the two-unit syllabus, which he believes is "miles too much".
Of the current system, A/Prof Hunt says it is "particularly well constructed" and has been "long tried and tested".
Listen to A/Prof David Hunt speaking with Adam Spencer on the segment.