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The predominantly Asian approach to teaching mathematics in schools, called the "mastery approach," is spreading, largely due to the fact these countries are high-performers on international tests.

Thousands of primary schools in England are to be offered the chance to follow an Asian style of teaching maths. The government is providing £41m of funding to help interested schools to adopt this ...

In my Ateneo de Manila University college algebra classes, students are participative and speak out in class, but most make errors in operations that should have been mastered in high school. Students ...

Charlotte, seven, glances at the sum on the whiteboard – 520 minus 269 – and shakes 10 little yellow squares of card out of a bag on her desk. “We’re renaming a 10 for 10 ones,” she says, swapping ...

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