Cockcroft (1982)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Foreword, Membership, Contents, Introduction

Part 1
Chapter 1 Why teach mathematics?
Chapter 2 The mathematical needs of adult life
Chapter 3 The mathematical needs of employment
Chapter 4 The mathematical needs of further and higher education

Part 2

Chapter 5 Mathematics in schools
Chapter 6 Mathematics in the primary years
Chapter 7 Calculators and computers
Chapter 8 Assessment and continuity
Chapter 9 Mathematics in the secondary years
Chapter 10 Examinations at 16+
Chapter 11 Mathematics in the sixth form

Part 3

Chapter 12 Facilities for teaching mathematics
Chapter 13 The supply of mathematics teachers
Chapter 14 Initial training courses
Chapter 15 In-service support for teachers of mathematics
Chapter 16 Some other matters
Chapter 17 The way ahead

Appendices

Appendix 1 Statistical information
Appendix 2 Gender differences in mathematical performance
Appendix 3 List of those who made submissions
Appendix 4 Visits and meetings
Appendix 5 List of abbreviations

Index

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the teaching of mathematics in schools under the chairmanship of Dr WH Cockcroft

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1982
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

ISBN 0 11 270522 7

Appendix 4 Visits to schools, industry and commerce: meetings with teachers
[pages 301 - 302]

Schools

Albury Manor Comprehensive School, Surrey
Bishop Perowne Church of England Secondary School, Hereford and Worcester
Bodedern School, Gwynedd
Cavendish School, Hertfordshire
Chipping Norton Comprehensive School, Oxfordshire
City Road Junior and Infants School, Birmingham
Crescent Junior School, Leicestershire
Daubeney CP Junior School, ILEA
Daynecourt Comprehensive School, Nottinghamshire
Downsend School, Leatherhead
Great Cornard Middle School, Suffolk
Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree
Hammersmith County Girls' School, ILEA
Hermitage Comprehensive School, Durham
Highbury Secondary School, Wiltshire
Hipperholme Grammar School, Calderdale
Holloway Boys' School, ILEA
Holyhead County Secondary School, Gwynedd
Houghton County Primary School, Cambridgeshire
Howden Clough High School, Kirklees
Hylton Red House Junior School, Sunderland
Islington Green Comprehensive School, ILEA
Light Hall School, Solihull
Liverpool Parkhill Primary School, Liverpool
Manor Field First School, Norfolk
Mead Junior School, Havering
Okehampton School and Community College, Devon
Oulder Hill Community School, Rochdale
Page Hill County Middle School, Buckinghamshire
Parsloes Manor School, Barking
Peasedown St John Primary School, Avon
Peter Lea Junior School, South Glamorgan
Prior Western County Primary School, ILEA
Rhodes Avenue Junior Mixed and Infants School, Haringey
Ripley County Junior School, Derbyshire
Riverside School, Bexley
St Asaph VC Infants School, Clwyd
St Oswald's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne
St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic High School, Sefton
Sandylands County Primary School, Lancashire
Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School, Dorset
Stirling Junior School, Doncaster
Stokesley Comprehensive School, Cleveland
Thomas Telford High School, Sandwell
Tinsley Junior School, Sheffield
Upwood County Primary School, Cambridge
William Shrewsbury School, Staffordshire
Winstanley County Primary School, Wigan
Wombwell High School, Barnsley
Wyche County Primary School, Cheshire
Wyndham School, Cumbria
Ysgol Cymerau Pwllheli, Gwynedd
Ysgol Esgob Morgan Junior, Clwyd
Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari, Mid Glamorgan

Industry and Commerce

Abbey Panels
Barclays Bank Limited
Baugh and Weedon Limited
British Airways
British Rail
British Steel Corporation
Clarks Limited
Coral Leisure Group Limited
Debenhams Limited
Delta Metal Company Limited
English China Clays Limited
Ford Motor Company Limited
John Williams of Cardiff Limited
Littlewoods Organisation Limited
Marks and Spencer Limited
Metal Box Limited
Mid Glamorgan Health Authority
Mullards Mitcham
Porth Textiles Limited
Post Office
Prudential Assurance Company Limited
Sheffield Industrial Training Company
Standard Life Insurance Company
Swan-Hunter Shipbuilders Limited
Vickers Limited
Wales Gas (Nwy Cymru)
William Walkerdine Limited

Meetings with teachers

The Lamorbey Park Teachers' Centre, Bexley
Mathematics Teachers' Centre, Brunel University
William Tyndale Mathematics Centre, ILEA
Ogmore Residential Education Centre, Mid Glamorgan
Coxlodge Teachers' Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Reading Centre, University of Reading