One in 12 trainee teachers dropped out of maths in high school, in a troubling trend that is crippling children’s numeracy skills. Thousands of primary school teachers are struggling to teach ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study of more than 2,000 mothers and fathers found that more than half lacked the confidence to help children with simple sums in the home. Just one-in-20 could correctly answer a full list of ...

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 ...

The study of mathematics is transitioning from the abstract to a more manipulative, hands-on approach and Unity Primary and Infant School is working hard to raise the subject’s profile among its ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A Primary School in the Perth suburb of Bull Creek is seeing great results from a program where ...

Science lessons in primary schools have been given a lower status since national curriculum tests for 11-year-olds in the subject were scrapped, says a report by inspectors out today. Many ...