Leo Varadkar was probably delivering the eye-popping news that a lot of policymakers do not understand things like percentages, medians and means at around the time our gathering was paying a lunch ...

Leaving Cert examiners have expressed concern at the lack of basic skills of some students sitting the higher level maths paper. In a report published on Thursday by the State Examinations Commission, ...

Some love numbers, while others find maths more challenging, but at the end of Year 6 they should all understand topics like geometry, percentages, ratios and algebra. It's important that children ...

The Department of Basic Education has presented the latest findings of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study 2019 (TIMSS), showing how South African students compare to the rest of ...

Each student responded to a set of questions orally for the Union education ministry and the National Council of Educational Research and Training study Thirty-seven per cent of 86,000 Class 3 ...

Do you think you have what it takes to master this tricky numeracy challenge? A quiz created by US-based trivia platform Quizly is inspired by the maths lessons children aged 13 receive in school. For ...

There's nothing quite like putting yourself to the test - whether it's a quiz on the television or a quiz night down your local pub - seeing if you can outsmart the quizmaster is hard to resist. But ...

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2018, by NGO Pratham, found there's been little improvement in learning over the past few years. The story today is far worse than what it was a decade ago ...