South Africa is grappling with a severe maths confidence crisis, with only 3.6% of learners who started grade one in 2013 achieving a matric maths pass rate of 60% or higher in 2024. Of the nearly 700 ...

As year-end exams come to a close, the pressure mounts for high school pupils and their families to decide whether to continue with Pure Mathematics or switch to Maths Literacy. This choice signifies ...

Students have launched a petition calling maths A level exams 'completely unreasonable' after struggling to answer questions on this year's test. Hundreds have already signed the petition while many ...

From trigonometry to calculus and vectors to geometry, few students take A-level mathematics thinking it's going to be an easy subject. But for Daily Mail readers who know their sequences from their ...

'I dreamt that I had to do A-level pure mathematics from scratch!' my best friend Heidi wrote in an e-mail. I could almost see her shrieking with fright. Heidi was doing her second degree at a London ...

Faced with a dilemma, the Examinations Authority considered whether to throw out the entire pool of A-level pure-maths results and require the 9,200 candidates who took the exam to take another one, ...