Despite the potential re-introduction of bonus points for maths much more has to be done to improve take-up and results in this area John Power, director general of Engineers Ireland has warned.

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Associate Prof Ton Than, former Head of the Mathematics-Informatics Department of the Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences, says that teacher training methods in mathematics studies remain ...

Twenty-first century maths lessons in English secondary schools are generally much like those of decades ago, with the teacher standing at the front of the class asking questions and opportunities for ...

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Wellington (4 June 2015): If your child is falling behind in maths, it could be because they are learning too many methods for solving maths problems, and are not spending enough time on the vital ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. 'Faddish and inconsistent' is how maths teaching has been described in a new report, resulting in ...

WE were told last week that children who follow the Shanghai Method in Mathematics are, on average, three years ahead of their British counterparts by the age of 15. The UK intends to adopt this ...

Inadquate teaching methods are the main reason for low maths results in Australian students, according to a damning new report, as nearly one in three Victorian students fail to meet national ...

England must learn from effective methods pioneered in China to improve teaching of maths in its schools, after 15 years in which it has "stagnated", a Government education minister has said. Liz ...

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

The typical way Vietnamese students learn includes providing math questions and guiding students on how to solve the questions so that students can learn by heart the samples and then apply the same ...