How many years' worth of students need to be rendered mathematically illiterate before provincial curriculum writers admit their little "discovery math" gambit has been a failure? This math, I will explain now, involves lofty, meta-type instruction rather than rote memorization and other proven techniques. Then comes the shout-out to Quebec, which has resisted the impulse to screw up its math curriculum, and whose students, not coincidentally, boast the highest math scores in Canada. Provincial leaders, playing along with this little routine, feign befuddlement when questioned about why math scores have tanked following changes to the curriculum:"Was it something we did?" Here, I'll echo what parents have been screaming into their respective provincial abysses for years: It's the math.

Source: CBC News September 01, 2017 09:00 UTC