Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not bad, but must try harder is probably how UK prime minister Rishi Sunak reads the country’s mathematics ...

BERLIN, GERMANY - A teacher explains mathematics during a lesson with pupils (sixth graders), who are sitting at desks socially-distanced.(Photo by Christian Ender/Getty Images) Math education has ...

Math as both profession and course of study can be a hard sell, something even Don Draper might have trouble pitching. The field unites numbers, theories, and ideas that, yes, can be physically ...

Sarah Buckley received funding from the Australian Research Council to complete her PhD at the University of Melbourne on mathematics anxiety. We all know someone who gets the jitters when they have ...

Rishi Sunak will today set out plans to make every school pupil in England learn maths until they are 18. The prime minister will say the country must change its “anti-maths mindset” and begin to see ...

Rishi Sunak is set to deliver a speech on Monday in which he will vow to tackle what he described as the UK’s “anti-maths mindset” to boost the economy. The prime minister will announce an expert-led ...