Undoing Labor’s road to mediocrity:

‘THE Abbott government is set to scrap a politically correct curriculum that forces maths students to study Aboriginal culture and lets kids give “reasonable” rather than accurate answers.
…In every subject – from science to physical education – children must study Aboriginal culture, environmental sustainability and Australia’s engagement with Asia, under the national curriculum forged by the former Labor government.
Kindergarten kids learning to count to 20 should also “read stories from other cultures featuring counting in sequence to assist students to recognise ways of counting in local languages and across cultures”, the maths curriculum states.
Year 6 kids studying geometry can “investigate the use of rotation and symmetry in the diagrammatic representations of kinship relationships of Central and Western Desert people.”
And Year 4 kids learning about fractions will “investigate the use of fractions and sharing as a way of managing Country: for example taking no more than half the eggs from a nest to protect future bird populations.”
Year 10 statistics involves “investigating biodiversity changes in Australia since European occupation.”
And in year 5 algebra, kids “use calculators to check the reasonableness of answers” – rather than checking if an answer is right or wrong….’