Only half of the 124,000 students who took the Education Quality and Accountability Office’s standard math test last school year met the province’s minimum standard, the agency reported Wednesday. Back in 2008, only 63 per cent of Grade 6s met the provincial standard and now they’re doing much worse. That year, third-graders met the provincial standard for math 70 per cent of the time. Academic-stream Grade 9s meet the provincial standard 83 per cent of the time and applied-stream Grade 9s meet it 45 per cent of the time. The Ontario government began treating young students’ math weakness as a really serious problem in 2014.

Source: National Post August 31, 2016 19:41 UTC