The province is field-testing a new, less stressful standardized Grade 9 math test this school year, amid criticism from the teachers’ union that this should not be done in the middle of a pandemic.

The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it. Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education ...

Peel school board officials are pleased with the number of students meeting provincial standards in reading, writing and math, but there is real concern about the huge the number of teenagers still ...

Standardized Grade 9 math tests show a disturbing gap between academic and applied level students, educators say. According to school-by-school test scores released last week, 52 per cent of Grade 9 ...

A mixed class of Year 2 and 3 students — equivalent to first and second grades in the United States — practices fractions at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. The government has instituted ...

Grade 9 math, long seen as the toughest link in Ontario’s new four-year high school program, may be starting to gain a foothold, with the latest province-wide test scores released today showing GTA ...

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Mathematics education is in crisis: A third of all schoolchildren end up in remedial math courses, and the level of interest in the subject is at an all-time low. This is a result, in part, of schools ...