Sunak needn’t worry – maths mania already has our schools in a stranglehold | Simon Jenkins

The obsession with a subject most people don’t need to study until they are 18 is typical of a system that fails to equip pupils for modern life

Rishi Sunak is clearly gripped by maths. Today’s attack on what he sees as Britain’s “anti-maths mindset” is his second this year. The prime minister wants to embarrass all innumerates and make not being good at maths socially unacceptable. Lack of maths, he says, is costing the country “tens of billions a year”. So he wants students in England to study ...