Wilfred Cockcroft
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British mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sir Wilfred Cockcroft was an eminent mathematics educator from the University of Hull. In 1978 he was commissioned by the then Labour government to chair a comprehensive inquiry into the teaching of mathematics in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales. The committee of inquiry produced its report in 1982, published as Mathematics Counts but widely known as "the Cockcroft report".
