For two successive years now, the number of Year 12 Advanced mathematics students in Australia has increased, from 20,344 in 2007 to 20,894 in 2008 to 21,054 in 2009, although this increase is barely keeping pace with the increasing Total Australian Year 12 population. The Advanced mathematics proportion appears to have reached reached a plateau of a little over 10%.

The number of Intermediate mathematics students (those taking an Intermediate subject but NOT taking an Advanced subject) also rose just slightly between 2008 and 2009 (by about fifty students) yet declined again relative to the increasing Total Year 12 population.

The increase from 2008 to 2009 in the number of Elementary students (those taking an Elementary subject but NOT taking an Intermediate subject NOR an Advanced subject) kept pace with the increasing Total Australian Year 12 population. International

Baccalaureate student numbers are not included.

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010 AUSTRALIA

August 2010