For the creative use of drama to teach maths, it was awarded the Ministry of Education's Innergy Award (Schools) last year, which recognises innovative methods in education.

A new way of teaching maths to Aboriginal children using culture-based storytelling, including dance, is reaping results.

How can schools lift their maths results? Budgewoi Public School's story shows what’s possible when clear instruction, collaboration and coaching come together.

Mathematics as a discipline was developed to solve real problems. It should be the problems that drive what our students learn, not vice versa.

A push by leading maths groups for more emphasis on problem-solving in the national curriculum is expected to reignite the maths wars when a draft new curriculum is released later this month.

The delay endorsing Australia’s new curriculum has fuelled a debate over whether it moves too far from the traditional teaching of mathematics.