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The British government is to China to try to the standard of maths in British schools. Students in the Chinese city of Shanghai have the highest international test results according to a global testing agency. There is a huge difference in numeracy levels between the UK and China. Britain's Times newspaper that: "The children of cleaners in Shanghai those of UK doctors and lawyers in global maths tests." To to this situation, the UK government will 60 of Shanghai's best maths teachers. It is part of a new initiative the National Numeracy Challenge, which at the mathematics ability of one million British students.

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