I copied this from a site that I visited, I make no excuses for copying it word for word as I think it talks about a very important subject. This is a guest post by Sham Ahmed, managing director of MathWorks UK, developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry, government, and

GCSE Results: Does High Fail Rate Mean Exams Are Being Marked Too Harshly? Around 600,000 teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland received their GCSE results last week. Complaints have been raised that exam boards had substantially raised grade boundaries, leaving pupils with lower results than expected. Teachers have predicted that the pass rate across

Schools minister Nick Gibb is banning pupils from using calculators in primary schools in a bid to help them improve their maths skills. He said: “They shouldn’t be reaching for a gadget every time they need to do a simple sum.   Children can become too dependent on calculators.” There will be a shake-up of the

Studies have shown that playing numerical board games from an early age boosts number skills of all preschoolers. Playing numerical board games are proving to be an inexpensive and easy method for families to assist preschoolers to improve their number skills. When children start school there is a noticeable gap in the maths and number