About ACME
Introduction
The purpose of having an independent Advisory Committee on
Mathematics Education (ACME) is to enable an effective and
constructive partnership between Government and the mathematics
community. ACME aims to inform and advise the Department for
Education in order to assist in its drive to raise standards and
promote mathematics at all levels within education. It seeks to
complement and enhance, rather than replace, consultative
procedures and aims for positive progress rather than routine
opposition to change.
The aim of ACME is to act as a single voice for
the mathematics education community to government, in the sense
that it aims to provide an authoritative, credible,
balanced and coherent position, which inevitably will not always
represent the diverse views that might exist across the mathematics
education community
The Advisory
Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), was established in
January 2002, by the Royal Society and the
Joint Mathematical
Council of the UK with the explicit backing of all major
mathematics organisations. ACME is currently supported by the
Department for Education, the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust,
the Gatsby Foundation and a range of other organisations across the
STEM landscape.