Local elementary school students’ math scores dropped by between one and six per cent with only about half of Grade 6 students able to meet the provincial standard on the 2015-16 EQAO math test. The ...

Elementary teachers’ weak math skills — some can’t even recall Grade 6 fractions — have sent Ontario teachers’ colleges scrambling to launch mandatory crash courses, with some making student teachers ...

The Ontario government will spend the next year overhauling the math curriculum as another round of provincial testing shows elementary students continue to struggle with the subject. “Every year, the ...

Premier Doug Ford is calling Ontario's new elementary math curriculum a shift back to basics and pitching it as a major overhaul of the previous version, but a closer look at the document casts doubt ...

The adoption of Alberta’s discovery math teaching techniques and curriculum has meant that in many Alberta elementary schools, teachers are discouraged from teaching the standard, time-honoured ways ...

The number of elementary students in Ontario who are meeting the provincial standard in math has steadily declined over the past decade. The Education Quality and Accountability Office, which ...