Mary Reid is an assistant professor of math education at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education. "From first-hand experience, the number one thing that gets in the way of kids learning math, building confidence in math and enjoying math is anxiety around math," said Vakharia in an interview with CBC News. —@VelvetpageIn the 2005 curriculum, students were "not required to memorize key number facts," said the Ministry of Education, while the new curriculum explicitly declares recall of math facts to be an expectation. "We're focusing on fundamental math concepts and skills like learning and recalling math facts, including multiplication," Education Minister Stephen Lecce said during the news conference announcing the curriculum. The whipping boy for the declining scores on the standardized tests is the current math curriculum.

Source: CBC News June 27, 2020 09:56 UTC