New primary school maths curriculum focuses on learning through play and problem-solving 

Teachers will also be given the chance to use more games as part of lessons involving counting, measuring, and angles, and the new curriculum will also ask children to solve real-life problems using maths. File picture

The first changes to the primary school maths curriculum in almost 25 years will see a new focus placed on how children learn the subject’s concepts through playing and problem-solving.

While much of what children will learn in maths, like numbers algebra, data, measures, shapes, and space, remains unchanged, the new curriculum places more emphasis on enhancing how children learn.