{"id":211454,"date":"2025-04-15T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/how-to-solve-australias-maths-problem"},"modified":"2025-04-15T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:02:41","slug":"how-to-solve-australias-maths-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/how-to-solve-australias-maths-problem","title":{"rendered":"How to solve Australia\u2019s maths problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-solve-australias-maths-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia has a maths problem. A new Grattan report shows that one in three Australian school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths.<\/p>\n<p>The report, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/grattan.edu.au\/report\/maths-guarantee\/\">The Maths Guarantee: How to boost students\u2019 learning in primary schools<\/a><\/em>, shows that students from disadvantaged backgrounds struggle the most with maths. But one in five students from well-off families struggle too.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2023 international maths test, only 13 per cent of our Year 4 students excelled, compared to 22 per cent in England and 49 per cent in Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has a maths problem. A new Grattan report shows that one in three Australian school students fail to achieve proficiency in maths. The report, The Maths Guarantee: How to boost students\u2019 learning in primary schools, shows that students from disadvantaged backgrounds struggle the most with maths. But one in five students from well-off families [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}