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 ...

Australian students’ maths abilities have been compromised over decades as a result of “faddish, unproven” teaching methods that have failed to deliver results, a national study has found.

"Faddish and inconsistent" is how maths teaching practices have been described in a new report, resulting in Australian students' declining maths results. The Grattan Institute report analysed why ...

When you send your child to school, you expect they will become proficient in maths.

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Gates acknowledged that his early beliefs about intelligence were overly simplistic. “I sort of thought, if you can do math, you can do anything. And if you can’t do math, you can’t do anything,” he ...

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