New data shows one-in-15 teaching students do not have the numeracy skills needed to graduate. Under a new agreement between the state and federal governments that took effect on July 1 this year, ...

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With the increase in mathematic content in the Chemistry curriculum, this event is an action research project that explores the evidence of the impact of numeracy on outcomes in Chemistry and ...

Meriden School mathematics teacher Ariel Fu remembers she had passion when she walked into her first classroom, but "wasn't 100 per cent sure of the content". "That affected everybody. Students don’t ...

Too often, the focus, when it comes to teaching maths, is on what the student must do: be more consistent, practise more, be more disciplined. But rarely do we ask: what more can the teacher do?

Catherine Attard received a grant from Financial Literacy Australia in 2014 to investigate the use of financial literacy education to improve student engagement with mathematics in primary schools ...

The way children are taught maths is set to reviewed nationally after alarming NAPLAN results showed students were falling ...

The morning was bright and the Grade 1 classroom was lively at SDN 1 Lopok elementary school in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara (NTT). It was the first class of the day and the teacher, Ibu Norma, had ...