Pexels January 28, 2019 Maths: should English schools look to Switzerland rather than Shanghai for inspiration? Mark Boylan, Sheffield Hallam University The Shanghai maths method is considered to be one the best in the world for teaching students mathematics, but it doesn’t necessarily translate well into English schools.
England’s top performing maths pupils achieve a very high standard but the bottom performers lag far behind. shutterstock December 15, 2017 Maths challenge: England has one of the biggest gaps between high and low performing pupils in the developed world Mark Boylan, Sheffield Hallam University But could the influences of Shanghai and Singapore help?
Hands up if you’re top of the class. December 6, 2016 PISA results: four reasons why East Asia continues to top the leaderboard Mark Boylan, Sheffield Hallam University East Asian pupils continue to outpace their counterparts in Western schools.