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(From Guardian Unlimited)
The former Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman has agreed to chair a Conservative party taskforce developing policies to improve the teaching of maths.
She will appear alongside the Tory leader, David Cameron, and the shadow children's secretary, Michael Gove, when Cameron launches the initiative tomorrow with a speech warning that other countries are pulling ahead of the UK at maths.
Cameron believes the credit crunch offers schools the opportunity to recruit more highly-qualified science and maths graduates who have previously shunned teaching.
Vorderman's panel will look at what more could be done to encourage them to join and remain ...