Math continues to be a problem for Ontario students.
The Education Quality and Accountability Office has released the test results conducted in the spring.
Among grade 3 students, 58 per cent met the provincial standard. That’s a four percentage point drop from the average of the previous three years.
In the test for grade 6s, 48 per cent met the standard, down one per cent from the average of the past three years.
Grade nine results remain relatively consistent but there remains a huge gap between the success rates in the applied and academic courses.
The results for each school board will be released to the public later in September.
One the heels of the results, the provincial government is revealing details of a new four-year math strategy to bolster the numbers.
The province will spend $200-million over the next four years on what is described as getting “back to the basic.”
It includes funding for school boards to hire math-leads, expanding online tutoring programs and increasing training and coaching in over 700 elementary and secondary schools where students struggle the most in math.
