French teachers have reported that Ukrainian students appear to be one year ahead of their peers when it comes to mathsUkrainian school children fleeing their country and joining classrooms in Italy and France are dazzling their new teachers with their maths skills, prompting debate about the slipping standards in western European classrooms. As part of a wave of five million refugees that have fled Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 10,000 Ukranian children are now enrolled in French schools and 16,000 in Italian schools where they have shown, in general, that they are a year ahead of their peers in the same age group in maths. Sponsored“Ukrainian students are much more comfortable at doing mathematics than French students,” Pierre Priouret, a maths teacher from Toulouse, told French the news outlet BFMTV.com. “All my secondary school colleagues who have Ukrainian students say they perform better,” he added.

Source: The Times April 22, 2022 06:59 UTC