Flicking through the Year 1 maths textbook, Othman cited more examples of "too much information" on pages 5, 6, 17, 18 and 19 ... through their children's primary school curriculum.

Today, primary schools in the Western ... well in advance of the 2013 school year. We expect to deliver approximately 1.6 million textbooks. The cost of this roll-out is approximately R144 million.

which will be completed before Sept 1, it said in a statement on Saturday. It will select new design teams to work on the illustration in math textbooks used by primary school students ...

Primary school students in China will start using new editions of their textbooks this coming September, with new illustrations that will help them understand classic Chinese poems. To accompany ...