It's an incongruous scene - a policeman in uniform teaching basic Hindi, English and Math to a bunch of children sitting under a tree. More than half the rural students in the 14-18 age group falter ...

Pale faces, shivers and goosebumps, and perhaps even a few nervous tummies. It’s not a fever; it’s just maths. Kids in India might not be scared of much these days, but maths may send them into panic.

Do you find mathematics boring and tedious? Do you find yourself making lots of mistakes while doing sums? If your teacher’s instructions fly over your head and you find it difficult to grasp the ...

These were mandated in 2008 and have been retained despite serious reservations set out in a comprehensive curriculum review in 2014. As education editor Natasha Bita wrote this week, maths teachers ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The high number of children beginning school without basic literacy and numeracy skills, such as recognising letters and numbers, is ...

Australia’s youngest students will see a back-to-basics shift in a key learning area under sweeping reforms to the national public school curriculum. The federal government invested $16.5b to reform ...

The Gujarat govt’s decision allowing Class 10 students to choose between standard and basic maths has led to a sharp decline in the number of students opting for standard maths since 2021-22. This ...

Education Minister to launch report criticising primary teachers for letting children down. A report to be launched by the Minister of Education today criticises the way pupils are taught maths and ...

I spent days speaking to students across schools. What I saw was a system that keeps moving children forward without teaching ...

The federal government invested $16.5b to reform the nation’s public education system under the Under the Better and Fairer Schools Agreement, with state and territory education ministers agreeing to ...