Claire Brown received funding from the Higher Education, Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP) to implement and research the Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program in ...
How can teachers help all students become successful in mathematics? It is a deceptively complicated question—one that invites different ideas in the field about how best to prepare students for ...
University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...
Templestowe Heights Primary School principal Rhys Coulson’s motivation to overhaul the way his school taught maths came from his son. “I wanted to avoid my own children struggling when they started ...
Seven standout schools have been commended for exemplary maths teaching, with a new research ­report urging principals not to “wait for others to act” on numeracy skills. The new guide for principals ...
Over the years, I have observed schools from many perspectives. Firstly, through the eyes of my parents who would share anecdotes each night at dinner, then for myself, as a student, primary school ...
“Australia has accepted maths mediocrity for far too long now and the problem starts in primary school,” says Jordana Hunter, education program director at the Grattan Institute. “We’ve significantly ...
Some form of mathematics is compulsory for all secondary school students in South Africa. By Grade 10, learners must choose between two forms: Mathematics (core “maths”) or Mathematical Literacy ...
As policy makers chip away at the foundations, academics have shared why the take up of specialist maths subjects in senior years continue to decline despite a national focus on boosting Australia’s ...