Each year, around 200,000 pupils in state-funded schools in England do not achieve a grade four or above in both English and Maths GCSE at age 16: about one-third of all students. The Department for ...

Weird Math sets out to “reveal the strange connections between math and everyday life.” The book fulfills that laudable goal, in part. At times, teenage math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his tutor, ...

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Corrected: A previous version of this story incorrectly described the ILO Group. It is a for-profit strategy and policy organization. Teenagers’ math and reading performance has continued to fall on ...

When it comes to factors that affect a student’s well-being in adulthood, better math skills might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But as it turns out, increasing math scores helps deliver ...

More than 700 educators, engineers and scientists, including winners of the Turing Award in computing and Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter about the future of K-12 math education. They are ...

Michelle Tregoning remembers the first time she felt nervous about maths like it was yesterday. In Year 6, she was asked to answer a simple maths question in front of the class: what's 5 x 6? Ms ...

Marcus du Sautoy—mathematician, author, playwright, educator and musician—is a modern polymath. He brings this vast knowledge to his new book, Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity. In nine ...

On August 15 2024, over 107,400 young people in the UK nervously scanned their results, looking for their grade in A-level mathematics. It is the first time more than 100,000 people have taken any ...

Elizabeth Truss, as we have reported before, is passionate about maths and now we know why. She has two 'A' levels in the subject, an A grade in Ordinary Maths and a C grade in Advanced Maths. She ...