Mathematics professors from the nation’s leading universities have denounced moves to embed a problem-solving approach into maths teaching in schools and want the proposal scrapped.

Our expensive testing and research still do not tell us enough about how children learn the subject, writes Elizabeth Henning.

I think it developed my problem-solving ability early on. It was from here that my love for maths developed. But as much as I loved it, I didn't get high marks. I had an unconventional way of solving ...

An overemphasis on the skills of maths (basic number facts, equations) at the expense of actually working as a mathematician (reasoning, problem solving, modelling, using technology) may then ...

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A tricky maths brain teaser shared on Facebook challenged users to solve it without a calculator.