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The report said even high achieving girls were more likely to have mathematics anxiety compared to boys.

‘Difficult, cold and abstract’: Why girls feel helpless in this school subject

Would you feel confident calculating the cost of a computer with added tax? Forty per cent of Australian teenagers do not, an international report says.

  • Christopher Harris

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Girls’ wellbeing is a particular concerns in the latest analysis of Australia’s PISA data.

‘Girls are struggling the most’: What’s really going on in our schools

Australian teenagers are more likely to feel unsafe and bullied at school than their international peers, while schoolgirls are highly anxious without their digital devices.

  • Robyn Grace and Lucy Carroll
Australia is among the worst in the world when it comes to classroom discipline.

Noisy, disruptive, distracted: Australian classrooms among world’s worst

Australian students do not listen to teachers and are distracted by digital devices in classrooms full of noise and disorder, according to the latest international report card.

  • Christopher Harris
Ryde Secondary College student Jasmine Virk.

The secret to engaging young brains in the classroom revealed

NSW students performed strongly in international testing in science. This northern Sydney school shares its strategy.

  • Christopher Harris and Lucy Carroll

Australian school students more than four years behind in maths

Concerning academic results have emerged for the nation and Victoria, where the proportion of low performers in maths has hit 26 per cent – the highest on record.

  • Robyn Grace
Sisters Amara (front) and Sahana have been taking additional classes for years to build their skills in areas such as English, maths and science.

When school’s out, tutoring’s in: Students sign up for after-hours study to get ahead

These high school students are signing up for extra tutoring classes to get ahead in key subject areas including maths, English and science.

  • Emma Koehn
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A major redesign of the state’s maths curriculum will abolish the current three-tiered course structure in years 9 and 10.

Maths revamp could pave way for student excellence

A sweeping overhaul of the state’s mathematics syllabus will be rolled out in all NSW schools from next year as part of a drive to channel more students into calculus-based advanced and extension HSC courses.

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New NAPLAN data shows about 30 per cent of students are not meeting expected standards in literacy and numeracy.

After radical NAPLAN overhaul, one-third of students fail to meet new standards

Experts say teachers must adopt explicit approaches to teaching numeracy and literacy in primary school to address the results.

  • Lucy Carroll and Christopher Harris
A disturbingly high number of Australians can neither read nor do basic arithmetic. 

Read the room: It’s time to act on our children’s literacy

If federal Education Minister Jason Clare has one goal this term, it should be making sure all of our kids can read.

  • Roshena Campbell
Head of the Association of Independent Schools of NSW Geoff Newcombe said governance training is vital given the diversity and scale of private schools.

Girls’ schools buck decline in maths participation

Girls involvement in higher-level STEM subjects is broadly declining. But at all-girls schools, the trend is reversed.

  • Loren Bridge

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