Britain will sent experts to east China's Shanghai to learn the city's experience in mathematics teaching in an attempt to raise the teaching standards of mathematics back home, said the Department of Education (DOE) on Tuesday 18 February 2014. The trip is a part of the government's mathematics improvement program. British Education Minister Elizabeth Truss is to lead a delegation of experts on a fact-finding mission to Shanghai's schools next week to see how children there have become the best in the world at maths. Britain was last year placed 50th out of 148 countries and regions in the World Economic Forum's competitiveness ranking in quality of mathematics and science education. Truss said that learning from Shanghai, and other far eastern jurisdictions, in how to teach mathematics was key to improving the country's competitiveness and productivity. The British delegation is expected to visit three schools at primary and secondary level, and teacher training institutes in Shanghai to get a first-hand look at mathematics classes and teaching methods there. Reports Xinhua News