GCSE students sitting a maths paper were surprised to find themselves presented with a question about calorie counting in their latest exam. The question, on a paper by examination board Pearson ...

Students were asked to calculate how many calories were in a banana and yoghurt. Credit: Getty Images/PhotoAlto Students in the UK were asked to calculate the calorific value of a woman's breakfast of ...

For some adults, seeing numbers is enough to make them break out into a cold sweat, fuelled by bad memories of trying (and failing) to concentrate in maths class. Therefore, the thought of having to ...

Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds than last year will need to resit their English and maths GCSE exams. More than 167,000 students in England received grade 3 or lower on their maths paper, about 21 ...

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The Government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose” and it can undermine young people’s “confidence and motivation”, education leaders have warned.

The government’s policy of making students resit maths and English GCSEs is “not fit for purpose”, education leaders have warned. Politicians have been urged to “rethink” how young people are ...

Students have been left utterly baffled by a painfully difficult question on their GCSE maths paper. After sitting the Edexcel maths paper, some pupils shared their distress over the tough question on ...