FUTURE MATHS
NEW REPORT FORECASTS INCREASED PERSONALISED HOME LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY FOCUSED MATHS TUITION

A new report released today forecasts a huge increase in personalised home learning with technological advances propelling e-learning to be the principle education method in the subject of maths by 2020. The report is the result of a year-long trend study by leading author and educationalist Ron Van Der Meer.

E-learning has many years to go to reach its potential, which is to tailor learning to provide one-to-one education for all. Ron Van Der Meer says “The future is e-learning but not the kind of e-learning as it is done today, which is still in the first motorcar design stage when they took the horse away from the cart and stuck a motor on top.”

The main findings of the report include:
Unlimited resources for teachers to decrease time spent planning and increase time spent teaching
Advancements in technology creating resources which engage children at a higher concentration to be far more impactful than traditional models
SATS and testing will be removed in favour of constant assessment
Maths will be taught in a more pragmatic way, which will make sense to a child and can be seen to be useful and practical to their daily life and mixed up with other taught subjects
Resources will be co-developed to increase skills such as Motor coordination, cognitive skills and memory development amongst others
There will be a 5x increase in home learning influenced by changing attitudes to work, the role of the school in the community and climate change
Personal, social development will play a greater role in the curriculum spurred on by diversity of religions
Increase in commercially subsidised education

By 2012:
A switch in Government and increased awareness of climate issues will bring about a massive change in the national curriculum. Eager to offset a decade obsessed with reporting structures for teachers, league tables and the testing of children the curriculum will place less importance on formal education and more on a holistic, all encompassing and practical education
In Maths the curriculum will focus much more on practical applications for example probability. In context learning will be more about everyday maths and its uses
Students will have ready access to downloadable materials with which they will be able to interact.
By 2020:
By 2020 technology will have advanced to such a level that online and interactive will exceed anything we can now imagine. It will be sophisticated and a virtual tutor scientifically based
Children will learn at the own pace alleviating discipline issues
By 2020 it will be common-place to have a Robot teacher in the home
The function of school will have changed significantly by 2020 and it will become more a central part of the local community itself offering a range of services for the community
Old teaching is based on books, by 2020 all of these will be available digitally and some will be enhanced to include hologrammed lesson plans
From all ages children will be much more economically savvy. Financial maths will be taught along the practical lines and cover areas such as taxation, inflation, pensions, mortgages and more