When Nathan Forbes took on the role of principal at Budgewoi Public School in 2020, he recognised an opportunity to enhance the school's maths program. The school had room for improvement in maths ...

A greater focus on maths teaching at primary school may be needed to improve children’s performance at maths, a major study has found. While there has been a significant improvement in maths ...

Thousands of primary school teachers are struggling to teach mathematics – resulting in teen­agers who use their fingers to count, Grattan Institute research reveals.

Labour has set out plans to teach "real world" maths skills in primary schools. It wants children to start learning financial literacy - including budgeting - from the age of four. Shadow ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australian students’ maths abilities have been compromised over decades as a result of “faddish, unproven” teaching methods that have ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak has put the “cart before the horse” with his plan to extend maths teaching until the age of 18 and ...

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Parents are struggling to understand their children's mathematics homework because of confusion over new teaching methods used in the classroom, according to research.

Plans to overhaul England's primary maths teaching would be "too much too soon" and could leave many pupils "by the wayside", a numeracy charity says. National Numeracy says Michael Gove's plans to ...

Every primary school should have a maths specialist and parents should have a less negative attitude to the subject, a government review says. An interim report by Sir Peter Williams says the UK is ...