Some educational leaders say there's no problem with our math education because we finished 8th in 2018 PISA testing. But this is misinformation. We finished 18th. We were below the Canadian average. And our results have cratered since embracing Discovery Math ed 20 years ago.

The cold, hard and brutal facts? In 1995, 39% of our students were high achievers & 26% low achievers in math, on TIMSS.
By 2019, that dropped to just 21% high achievers, 41% low achievers. #ableg https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yv09VMtCUoJdc4AiUID7HOgosolfR_YSwotG_J0kSwU/edit?usp=sharing

When it comes to the PISA test, 27% of our students at highest levels of math achievement in 2003, 7.4% at lowest level.
By 2018, just 15.3% highest levels, rocketing up to 16.2% lowest levels.

On TIMSS 2015 we ranked 30th, below Ontario and Quebec again.

Many Alberta parents noticed how weak our discovery math education had become, saw their child did not even know Times Tables, and taught their kids themselves or hired tutors. Kumon numbers exloded. How much worse would our numbers be without that parental effort? #ableg #abed

But the issue is that not all parents can afford Kumon or other tutors or can teach math at home. This is the real tragedy of Discovery Math fiasco, that it has led to 2-tier education and hammered hardest our most vulnerable students. Innumeracy rates doubled. #abed #abed