While we tend to be highly critical of the NDP government and its management of Manitoba affairs, there have been a few noteworthy improvements made under education that deserve to be noted. As we ...

Provincial math exams for Grade 6 students are changing to gauge if Alberta children's basic math skills are improving. Prompted by parents' and academics' concerns that some students don't grasp the ...

If you were to add \(\frac{1}{2}\) and \(\frac{1}{3}\), it is hard to picture what the answer would be. Rewriting the fractions with a common bottom number, or denominator (in this case, \({6}\)), ...

A group of fourth- and fifth-graders at Circle View Elementary School have been studying hard for an upcoming math competition. But unlike most children their age, these students have excelled past ...

Quickly, off the top of your head — what's seven times nine? If you can't answer without a calculator, you might fail part of the new Grade six provincial achievement test. Alberta begins six-year ...

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A group of fourth- and fifth-graders at Circle View Elementary School in Huntington Beach have been studying hard for an upcoming math competition. But unlike most children their age, these students ...

Provincial math exams for Grade 6 students are changing to gauge if Alberta children’s basic math skills are improving. Prompted by parents’ and academics’ concerns that some students don’t grasp the ...