Last month, the government's numeracy taskforce issued detailed guidelines for primary schools, calling for one hour of mathematics every day and outlining an ideal structure for the lessons.

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Printing and distribution of nearly 8.8 million mathematics and science textbooks to 14, 000 primary and secondary schools.

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