Half of England’s primary schools will adopt Asian methods for teaching maths to try to improve the country’s numeracy.
The government has earmarked £41m of funding to help more than 8,000 primary schools implement the changes, training 700 teachers in so-called “maths mastery” and making new textbooks available.
The Asian system, which will see maths taught to a whole class and with objects and pictures used to demonstrate abstract concepts, has seen Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong top the world tables.
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