The District Education Council for Anglophone East, is looking for support from the province to help students show better progress in Math.
Chair Tamara Nichol says the district has done research over the past six years, “What we have learned from our own data, is that students in grades 3 and 4 start to show some gaps, but those gaps don’t really show us that we have a major problem until they get to grades 7 and 8, just before they get to high school.”
The Council has written a letter to the Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Serge Rouselle, ” Our request to the Minister is, we want support for early years teachers because we know if we give students the basics in numeracy that they need right from day one entering school, we can cover those gaps before they ever happen.”
They are proposing a three year pilot project that would include 15 additional full time employees who would be dedicated to numeracy.
The letter was submitted earlier this month, but they have not received a response yet..
