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Maths lessons used in schools in Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea will be used in Australia in an effort to boost student scores, local media reported on Thursday.
The new primary school textbooks are based on the way maths is taught in Asian countries which top international tests, the West Australian reported.
Book publisher Scholastic says its newly released Prime Mathematics books introduced topics at an earlier age and covered them in more depth than the Australian curriculum.
"What is taught in fractions in Year 3 in Singapore, some of it is not taught until our kids are in Year 6," Scholastic's head of education Christine Vale said.
"It's not rote learning, though that is the perception. It's very much getting the kids to think and talk about the way they understand mathematics."
Some schools in Western Australia will run a trial of the books in sample classes and then compare their results with students doing standard lessons.
