SYDNEY, 20 May 2025: As Australian schools grapple with a chronic decline in maths achievement, leading educational software provider Education Perfect (EP) is launching a series of new Mathematics offerings designed to reverse the trend, available to all secondary schools across the nation.
Australia’s latest PISA snapshot shows mathematics results continue to slip among secondary students. The nation now has one of the largest gender gaps in maths achievement internationally, and one-third of students aren’t meeting basic proficiency in numeracy. Education experts warn that Australia’s declining maths performance puts its future STEM capability and economic competitiveness at risk.
With the changing dynamics of teacher-student relationships and increasing teacher workloads, it is no wonder that Maths teachers struggle to consistently deliver best-practice pedagogy. In EP’s recent survey of 400 teachers across Australia and New Zealand, more than half (52%) reported that formative assessments take too much time to implement regularly. Teachers need meaningful data to teach effectively and adaptively, but regular formative assessment is time-consuming, hard for teachers to run, and often not fully aligned to the curriculum.
EP is directly tackling these issues with a new approach to assessment and learning. The platform will offer live progress tracking for each student, giving educators full visibility of which specific curriculum outcomes a student has mastered or missed over time.
It also provides suggested resources or exercises for teachers to address specific learning gaps. By starting with checking student readiness and following up with targeted content, it closes the loop of teaching and learning in one system. Australian teachers will be empowered with the data needed for the full learning cycle in order to make a real impact.
The tool currently covers the latest Australian Curriculum and Victorian Curriculum, with a New South Wales-aligned version rolling out in a staged approach. All existing EP Maths customers will receive the core assessment functionality as part of their subscriptions.
The launch comes as part of EP’s ongoing commitment to strengthening maths education, which has already benefited 220,000 students globally. In parallel, the company is undertaking a comprehensive overhaul of maths learning resources, with the aim to deepen their link to assessments and enable educators to more easily target learning recommendations for each student based on assessment insights.
James Santure, Head of Product Impact at Education Perfect, said: “It’s no secret that maths performance in Australia is in crisis, and we’re on a mission to reverse that trend. This launch marks one of our most important steps to date. By fusing curriculum-aligned assessments with live growth data and insights, we’re putting world-class pedagogy – and precious time – back into teachers’ hands. Every assessment pinpoints exactly where a student needs help, and every recommendation links straight to refreshed content built for today’s curriculum. Our goal is simple: give educators the insight and tools to reverse Australia’s numeracy decline, and ensure every student can achieve maths mastery for a more secure future.”
Early pilot trials of the tool have shown positive results, with strong testimonials about the offering’s impact on Australian maths teachers:
Julia Min, Math product advisor and Maths Teacher, said: “As a maths teacher, this new product is an excellent tool which gives teachers many options on assessing their students. It is gamechanging in the sense that it gives immediate, actionable insights into where students are at, allowing them to assign tasks to address any potential gaps in their learning in real time. The learning snapshot reports are a great way for teachers tracking progress—they make it so easy to see exactly where each student is struggling or excelling. And the new lessons with the built-in difficulty model are fantastic. Maths teachers can tailor the learning experience to meet the needs of every student, ensuring they stay engaged and challenged at the right level. This product isn’t just a tool; it’s a partner in ensuring students reach their full potential.”
Camilla Andrews, Mountain Creek State High School, said: “It’s so handy and quick to do, find out what my students know, and what to teach next. My class is made up of multi -level classes, so it helps with what classes to teach next.”
EP’s ‘Learning Snapshots report shows how each student is progressing towards specific curriculum outcomes.
EP’s ‘Compare Assessment’ report allows educators to accurately track growth over time.
EP’s ‘Assessment Analysis’ report groups students by learning gap and suggests learning recommendations to help close them.
