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Ministry of Education Created
The Ministry of Education had been created in 1944, which became the Department of Education and Science in 1964. -
Joint Mathematics Council Formed
The Joint Mathematical Council was formed in 1963 to improve the teaching of mathematics in UK schools. The Council was formed in 1964, which regulated and standardize UK exams. -
Scientific Calculators came into Schools
Electronic calculators began to be owned at school from the early 1980s. Society believed that calculators would diminish abilities of mental arithmetic. Scientific calculators came to the aid for those working out logarithms and trigonometric functions. -
GCSE's Introduced
Exams are taken at the age of sixteen (except Scotland) are now provided by the GCSE. -
National Curriculum First Published
The national Curriculum sets out the legal requirements of mathematics teaching in England and Wales. It provides information to help teachers implement and standard of mathematics in a classroom and a school setting. It was first published on the 14 October 2013 and then later updated on the 16 July 2014