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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 ...

A Grattan Institute study has found that not only are Australia's students struggling with maths, but many teachers lack the confidence to teach it even at a Year Six level. The institute has called ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Australian students’ maths abilities have been compromised over decades as a result of “faddish, unproven” teaching methods that have ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Christopher Rakes receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Several state and national reform efforts have tried to improve things. The most recent Common Core standards had a great deal ...

Head of Learning Sciences Lab, National Institute of Education of Singapore Learning from mistakes, errors, and failure seems intuitive and compelling. Everyone can relate to it. But if failure is a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Australia has been too slow to rule out “faddish but unproven” maths teaching methods in schools despite persistent underperformance and ...