For Britain's pupils, maths is even more pointless than Latin | Simon Jenkins

Our ministers remain gripped by the cult of maths. But China's classrooms don't hold the key to the future of the British economy

There are lies, damned lies and statistics, but worse still are maths statistics. They send people mad. Elizabeth Truss, the education minister, sets off next week to see why Chinese pupils are so good at maths: indeed, why even working-class Chinese pupils are better than middle-class British ones. She and her boss, Michael Gove, believe the future of the British e...