Maths lessons are seen as difficult, irrelevant and boring by about a third of teenagers, a survey suggests. Some of the school pupils surveyed for vocational training providers City & Guilds also ...

Teenagers could face a maths test which looks at their ability to understand real-life situations, under plans being developed by an exam board. Colin Hughes, chief executive of AQA, an awarding body ...

The poor scores given to US math students who took international skills tests might result from poor teaching rather than uninterested students. After elementary school, most of the math classes I ...