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The Group of Eight Review delivers an alarming picture of mathematics in Australian schools, revealing that students are losing interest in mathematics in primary school with great impact on the number of Year 12 students studying mathematics. Media surrounding the release of the review:For Maths It's Déjà Vu All Over Again The Funneled Web, 15 March 2010 Call to set maths whiz targets "What is needed now is a call to government to put in place a set of measures, not just isolated measures, to deal with the problems in mathematics and statistics," Geoff Prince, director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, told The Australian. The Australian, 11 March 2010 Group of Eight Review's sum of all fears: maths is in serious decline The Daily Telegraph, 10 March 2010 THE Group of Eight has declared mathematics education in Australia is in crisis. The Australian, 10 March 2010
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