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For a country that once prided itself on being a “world class” superpower in education, the latest math scores on an International Education Association (IEA) test were met with total shock and a deafening silence. Our national education agency, the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) and all provincial ministries of education looked the other way. Guessing at responses and thinking ‘outside the box’ now takes priority over getting the right answers in the highest levels of Canadian K-12 education.

A week ago, December 4, 2024, Canada’s grade four students plunged in math scores to 32nd out of 64 countries who took the best-known international benchmark test in mathematics and science.  For the first time over the past 25 years, Canadian students fared worse than those in the United States (24th) and those of Ontario fell below the country’s mean score.

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