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The British is looking to China to try to improve the of maths in British schools. Students in the Chinese city of Shanghai have the international test results according to a global testing . There is a huge difference in levels between the UK and China. Britain's Times newspaper reports that: "The of cleaners in Shanghai outperform those of UK and lawyers in global maths tests." To attempt to rectify this , the UK government will hire 60 of Shanghai's best maths teachers. It is part of a new called the National Numeracy Challenge, which aims at improving the mathematics of one million British students.

The UK government said it was that Britain lagged far behind many countries in maths. It warned that poor numeracy is costing the country's up to $30 billion a year. Britain's education minister Elizabeth Truss, who recently returned from a fact-finding in China, stated: "We have some maths teachers in this country but what I saw in Shanghai and other Chinese cities has only strengthened my that we can learn from them." She added: "They have a can-do to maths and I want us to match that, and their ." She said: "Good maths have the greatest earnings and provide the strongest protection against .

 


 
 

 

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