The IMU adhering organization for the Philippines is the Mathematical Society of the Philippines (MSP). As such, it is the National Board of the MSP that appoints the Philippine Country Representatives. Effective January 2025, there will be 2 representatives per four-year term: 1 Country Representative (CR) and 1 Country Co-Representative (CCR). During any four-year term, one representative would come from the MSP as adhering organization to the IMU, and the other from the organizations of math educators. The service of the CCR is such that immediately after serving her/his first 4-year term, s/he will become the CR in the succeeding 4 years.
The Philippine Council of Mathematics Teacher Educators (MATHTED) and the Mathematics Teachers Association of the Philippines (MTAP), along with its Tertiary Level (MTAP-TL), are the country’s leading organizations for mathematics education researchers and practitioners.
MATHTED activities include webinars and biennial international conferences, and in 2025 added a pre-conference event called the MathTED Early Career Researchers' Day or M-ECRD. MTAP activities include Saturday programs, after-school sessions, online classes, and oral and written competitions. MTAP-TL hosts annual conventions, conducts webinars, and organizes professional development venues for mathematics educators.
The principal institution for mathematics education research is the University of the Philippines National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (UP NISMED). It is a regional center of research and development advocating quality science and mathematics teaching and learning at the basic and teacher education levels. It disseminates its publications through its teacher training programs at the national, regional, division, district, and school levels as well as its public lecture series. It is the lead agency in a network of Regional Science Teaching Centers supported by UNICEF and the Department of Science and Technology Science Education Institute.
The Philippine Department of Science and Technology Science Education Institute, or DOST-SEI undertakes science education and manpower development through research and training programs, as well as scholarship grants and awards, as part of an overall strategy for national policy development, local and external benchmarking, and capacity building. Universities, through their colleges of education, and departments/institutes of mathematics and mathematics education, also contribute to mathematics education research.
MATHTED has an official journal, Intersection, which welcomes articles detailing qualitative and/or quantitative research on mathematics education, expositions on applications of mathematics education to various fields of endeavor, review of educational resources (print, multimedia, etc.), and reflections on teaching and learning Mathematics. It is published two times a year.
The MSP also has an official journal, Matimyas Matematika. It is published semi-annually (June and December) and occasionally comes out with special issues. Although focused on original research papers and survey articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics, it also welcomes mathematics education articles.
The usual pathway to become a teacher in the Philippines is a two-step process:
Alternatively, if one graduates with a bachelor’s degree other than the two mentioned above, then she or he may only take the LET after completing at least 18 units of professional education subjects. These 18 units comprise a Certificate for Professional Teaching.
In School Year 2012-2013, the enhanced curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K to 12) was implemented. Enacted into law (RA 10533) in 2023, K to 12 increased the number of years for basic education from ten (10) to twelve (12) years: six (6) years of elementary education and six (6) years of secondary education, in that sequence.
Secondary education now includes four (4) years of junior high school and the additional two (2) years of senior high school education. The Senior High School Curriculum was implemented in 2016. In 2024, an updated Curriculum was deployed. It was implemented in School Year 2024-2025 for Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 4, and Grade 7, while School Year 2025-2026 saw the implementation of Grades 2, 5, and 8. Implementation for the rest will follow similarly.
In 1964, the Philippine government, through the DOST-SEI, established the Philippine Science High School System, which now has 16 campuses nationwide. It is a specialized public high school system that focuses on a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curriculum for gifted students, aiming to prepare them for careers in these fields.
The Philippines also implements the Indigenous Peoples' Education (IPEd) program and the Alternative Learning System (ALS), a parallel learning system for out-of-school youth and adults. ALS is often used to deliver IPEd, providing a non-formal, flexible, and culturally-appropriate way for IPs to receive basic education and achieve functional literacy.