Australia Falling Behind on Passion and Performance in Maths

A teacher writes an equation on a whiteboard during a maths lesson at a secondary school in London, England, on Dec. 1, 2014. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Australia’s youth are becoming less proficient and less interested in maths, causing a serious decline in national maths standards.

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) revealed that in 2018, Australia fell to the OECD average for maths for the first time according to PISA testing results.