Year 12 maths students have scratched their heads through a series of HSC exam papers so tricky that one question alone took Australia’s most famous maths teacher three attempts to solve. The 2024 ...

The number of students taking senior school maths has flatlined over the past 10 years, suggesting mathematics participation has "bottomed out" and universities may need to insist on the subject as a ...

An extra booklet for Standard maths students at the beginning of the exam befuddled some students while a bizarre extended question about crickets chirping left them utterly confused. This year’s ...

And one in particular has become the subject of intense backlash – and memes – after countless students struggled to answer it at all. The issue arose after the syllabus was tweaked by the NSW ...