While snakes and ladders is purely a game of chance, there is a way to add some strategy, says mathematician Peter Rowlett ...

The 88% national pass rate recorded for last year’s matric students is nothing to be sniffed at. It is particularly encouraging that more than 656 000 learners passed the National Senior Certificate ...

The decline in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) matric maths pass rate is not the result of a sudden collapse in teaching quality, but the outcome of long-standing weaknesses in the schooling ...

The decline in the number of South African learners taking and passing pure mathematics – as opposed to the more rudimentary maths literacy – at high school level is going to have profound negative ...

Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube has announced that the National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate for the country’s Class of 2025 has increased to 88%, representing a 0.7% improvement over ...