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Kenya’s education ministry announced in March 2025 that mathematics would be an optional subject in senior secondary school, which begins in grade 10. Most students in this grade are aged 15 years.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not bad, but must try harder is probably how UK prime minister Rishi Sunak reads the country’s mathematics ...

New research by psychologists at the University of Sheffield highlights the crucial role executive functions play in early maths. The Orchestrating Numeracy and the Executive programme (The ONE) is to ...

Haryana's government schools have achieved a remarkable turnaround in foundational learning, with high-performing schools surging from 7% to 53% in just three months. A statewide diagnostic assessment ...

Is it OK for children to count on their fingers? Generations of pupils have been discouraged by their teachers from using their hands when learning maths. But a new research article shows using ...

Mathematics -- it's the subject some kids love to hate. Yet despite its lack of popularity, mathematics is critical for a STEM-capable workforce and vital for current and future productivity. New ...

Devon school says a blended approach of classroom support and Machine Learning insight has improved performance at the Key Stage 3 level. It’s well known that maths is a subject with which many ...

Kinga Morsanyi received funding from the Royal Society to carry out this research. Carlo Tomasetto received funding from The Royal Society to carry out this research. Paddy O'Connor and Veronica ...

Various governmental as well as non-governmental surveys have shown that we are facing a learning crisis at the foundational level. A large proportion of students currently in elementary school, ...