The Ministry of Education has enlisted a team of experts to tackle New Zealand children s poor performance in maths.
The ministry says it will make the maths curriculum clearer and give teachers more help (File image).
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It has commissioned the country s top science body, the Royal Society, to investigate the maths curriculum and the best ways of teaching the subject.
The ministry said it would also make the maths curriculum clearer and give teachers more help to teach it.
It announced the moves after the Principals Federation said there appeared to be no leadership, despite years of falling national and international test scores in maths and science.