Numerical skills play an important role in everyday life, academics, and professional success. From managing personal ...

OPINION: Tutor Sharon McEwan warns that many Year 9 and 10 students work at Year 7 level.

Results from the trial literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education students are in. The tests were sat by 5,000 volunteers across the country, with 92% passing in literacy and 90% in the ...

I apparently owe a lot to my 9th grade math teacher. Every Friday, Mr. Smith would have the class play a game. He would write a series of numbers on the board, and the goal was to use basic math to ...

TRAINEE teachers who have taken Higher maths can still struggle with basic numeracy, the Scottish Parliament heard yesterday. Graham Donaldson, the architect of a major report on the future of teacher ...

Simply sign up to the Education myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Over the past three years, Florence Ravaonindrina has noticed a sharp improvement in basic maths skills among children ...

Figures show that while literacy rates are improving, the number of adults who have numeracy skills no better than those expected of an 11-year-old has shot up from 15 million to 17 million – 49 per ...

SENATORIAL candidate and Makati City mayor Abby Binay has zeroed-in on strengthening early childhood education as a crucial step in improving the country’s quality of education. For the mayor, the ...

Tamil Nadu has the highest number of students lacking basic numeracy skills. Tamil Nadu has the highest number of students lacking basic numeracy skills followed by Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, and ...

Young people starting work at John Lewis stores lack basic literacy and numeracy skills, the boss of the department store chain has said. Dame Sharon White's comments were reported in the Times after ...