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 ...

There has been much discussion in recent years about why East Asian children perform so well on international education tests. I’ve argued before that there is no one reason for these countries’ ...

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.

Study shows ‘maths mastery’ experiment improved children’s scores in English schools after just one year Schools in England experimenting with east Asian teaching methods have seen an improvement in ...

Editor's note: Half of British primary schools will adopt the traditional Chinese method of math teaching in a government drive to stop youngsters falling behind their Asian counterparts. They will ...