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 ...

Mandarin Chinese. Abacus math. Arabic. Singapore Science. Taking a few successful teaching methods and lessons from around the world, two women have co-founded a charter school with international ...

University College London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We are beginning to see whether these borrowed methods are working in the classroom. My new study, which looked ...

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.

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 ...