I think it’s just a question of paying teachers more.
Elementary school math results continue to fall.
Half of all Grade 6 students did not meet the provincial math standard in 2016.
Grade 3: 68% (2012) - 5% (2016) = 63%
Grade 6: 58% (2012) - 8% (2016) = 50%
Failing to teach students in Ontario proper math skills is part of a long term strategy for keeping the Liberals in power.
So far it seems to be working.
Based on my experience with education majors from when I was in college many years ago, a lot of the teachers would probably have trouble meeting the provincial math standards.
I used to worry about this but not anymore. The crappy math curriculum (it’s in Sask. too) gives a huge advantage to students whose parents are aware to the problem and supplement their math lessons. Those students get great marks and will have no problem with their grades and getting into STEM programs (university and polytechnicals). So, as usual, it is the disadvantaged and neglected kids who pay the highest price.
I expect the solution in Ontario will be to scrap standardized testing.
In Wynnetario the teachers are more concerned about passing drugs for ADHD to boys (whom they want to behave like girls) than they are about teaching math. It’s hard to do math when you’re medicated into submission.
http://www.rense.com/general4/addd.htm
But the important thing is that 100% of the students could correctly name all 53 provincially-approved gender identities. Priorities, people.
Canada’s education system … Not. Progressive. Enough. Ab’s-Trudeau needs to increase test scores the American (leftist) way … Common Core. Under the new Common Core Math grading standards, students are given partial credit for WRONG. answers. This INSTANTLY raises every Detroit math score … despite the fact that the.children STILL don’t GET IT !! Brilliant I tell you …. !! Brilliant !! The left is really pretty damn clever … the stats are raised … but the kids are still dumb. Leftist UNION teachers will get all the credit.
The revised six-ed curriculum is working as planned.
Many of my profs gave credit for wrong answers, so long as what was presented was correct up to the point where the mistake was made.
While I was teaching at a tech school, I did the same thing and, whenever I could, I pointed out where and what their error was. Many of my students appreciated that and, I think and hope, they learned something from that. After all, that’s what they’d be doing once they were in industry.
I remember one time when a student got the correct answer on an exam question but his logic and procedure was total rubbish. I assessed him accordingly, but, being the self-entitled brat that he was, he squawked about it. (“But, but, but, I got the *right* answer!”)
The last I heard, he went on to get a master’s degree and was working in the aerospace industry. Scary, isn’t it?
Wonder if they will bring back the “Teacher has the biggest influence on your child’s education” ad again.
Hey, didn’t you hear? STEM is now STEAM. You’ll never guess what the A stands for:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/242465/
Does Montreal–Ottawa–Toronto– Winnipeg–Calgary–Edmonton– Vancouver–have the Same Inner-City Problems OR are they just in Thinking not to be reported to the Poorly informed Liberal/N.D.P. Captured special Urban Voting Blocks?
There are only two data points. But we can see that increased exposure to teachers means worse results. By extrapolation we can estimate that by the time they graduate from college most of them will be idiots. This seems to agree well with reality. The science is settled.
I wonder how much this has to do with bringing in 3rd world trash that has an IQ of 80 or lower?
I read that. Being artistically challenged I admire creativity and the ability to make pretty things (but most modern art is awful in my opinion). I also somewhat agree that being able to think abstractly might be advantageous in the experimental maths and science areas. In theory, anyway. In practice, based on what’s happening in the social sciences and humanities, it’ll be a disaster. I’d keep the soft science influence as far away from STEM as possible.
I had an elementary school (5/6) teacher text me once asking me how to calculate 60% off of something. When I told her she was holding an $800 calculator, she complained that she didn’t know ho to find the calculator app.
That was my read as well, and InstaPundit’s take was a good one: you don’t really need math for art, so what is it doing in with all the other things that actually need it? Hell, you need math to bake, maybe we should add a B?
I spent a great week in Italy this summer. The age where someone like da Vinci can be considered an engineer, a scientist AND an artist is a few centuries in the past unfortunately.
Unless Buckaroo Banzai was a documentary…
……And don’t remember, it is re-inforced that CO2 is evil, green technology is all good, global warming is destroying the earth, the polar bears are drowning, Raven, Bear and Thunderbird are real spirits, and we are living on FN land with their permission. All these principles are drilled and understood.
Of course! And learning how to plant gardens will tick off the ‘food security’ box on the U.N.’s Agenda 21 list of priorities, because North Americans are starving.
Italians have a no-nonsense outlook that puts our country to shame. When asked by a reporter if they’ll give up pasta because growing durum wheat is hard on the environment, Italians seated at tables outside a cafe’ said that the global warming zealots will have to find another product to shame…THEY will keep eating PASTA!
The solution is very simple. The data doesn’t yield the desired outcome so just do a “NOAA” style “adjustment” and the students magically become math geniuses. TaDa!!
” a question of paying teachers more.”
YUP. More LIEberal/SJW/Commie votes for the effers. Never trust a teacher/professor younger than 55! Now if only today’s parents understood that. Oh wait.
captcha…dicks. Beautiful!
I, too received partial credit for classes … in COLLEGE. NEVER in grade school, never for basic facts and formulas. I wouldn’t have passed a college Physics class had I not been given partial credit for my work. However basic math Facts are just that FACTS. But noooooo … my wife has to give her 1st graders “partial credit” when they wrongly show (3)10-stick bundles and 2 more sticks to represent the number 42. Why ? Because they remembered to use bundles of 10-sticks … even though they were a bundle short.
PS … the kids who do this never get any better. They, uh … have “problems” … that keep them from learning. But NOW ! They magically have “improved” test scores. Please tell me how this will make our society a better place. It will ONLY result in ONE THING … an even greater division between the “haves and the have-nots”. No problem … we’ll simply pay more taxes to give them just-enough more FREE STUFF … to keep them from rioting in the streets under banners of Black Lives Matter or Wall Street Sucks or some such nonsense.
Most elementary school teachers are women. Women are notoriously lazy when it comes to hard stuff like math – the number of golden vaginas I’ve met in my career who could actually relate to numbers is negligible. Don’t be surprised that females whose sole qualification is a degree in education (i.e. they couldn’t get a degree in anything that actually demands intellectual concentration and real life competence) are turning your kids into morons. It’s no big socialist conspiracy. It’s just the end game of letting women run rampant through western civilization without a shred of restraint.
I noticed that when I started my teaching position in the late 1980s. Many were right out of high school and didn’t know a lot of critical fundamental concepts. What they didn’t know, *I* was expected to teach them, even though that wasn’t in the course outline or, for that matter, my job description.
It didn’t get better in the later courses for which pre-requisites were required. Often those instructors who taught those covered only part of the required material but, in the parlance of my institution, it was taught “well”. That’s sort of like teaching the alphabet but only half the letters because that’s all what the students could manage and be good at.
Then again, the standards for graduating from that place was so low, it was as if all one had to do to get a diploma was to pass by the place.
there is math and then there is the version?, that the kids are being taught, unfortunately the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide real numbers does not seem to be taught these days.
Funny thing … my (school teacher) wife has a Bachelor of SCIENCE (BS) degree in “Child Development” from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo AND a post graduate Teaching Credential. To sum-up her math skills … she cannot even reproportion ingredients if expanding or reducing a recipie. She is really, really, bad at math. Yet she has a Bachelors of SCIENCE degree.
I … on the other hand … work in a very technical (though not hard science) field … and I graduated with a BA Bachelor of Arts degree. She took virtually -0- science and math courses in college. I took dozens.
Actually an Arts degree is not all fluff. My university sweetheart (and now wife) studied Fine Arts. As part of her training she now only learned to paint and sculpt, but also did welding, woodworking and used several types of machine-tools. She still uses those skills 30+ years later.
As a R.A. for the Physics Department I often used the Arts Department machine shop, it was better equipped than ours.