Put down that calculator, teens — a new mental math component is part of the Grade 9 provincial achievement test (PAT) this year. Following Eggen’s move last year to add 15 calculator-free questions ...

Newly released provincial exam scores show Grade 9 students struggled with a new mental math portion of the test. Just half of ninth-graders who wrote the math provincial achievement test last spring ...

The trends were down across the board for local students in the EQAO’s 2014-15 Grade 9 math results released Wednesday. The Windsor-Essex Catholic District Board saw 88 per cent of academic students ...

Standardized Grade 9 math tests show a disturbing gap between academic and applied level students, educators say. According to school-by-school test scores released last week, 52 per cent of Grade 9 ...

More than 40 per cent of Grade 9 public school students failed their math provincial achievement tests last year — bringing the state of math in Alberta to what parents are calling a “crisis.” ...

As public school trustees on Tuesday debated standardized test results showing more than 40 per cent of Grade 9 students failed their math exams last year, officials also confirmed that acceptable ...

Months before she even wrote her Grade 9 final math exam, Anita Hofer's daughter was already worried she was going to fail the standardized test. The Calgary mom said she encouraged her daughter to ...

EQAO Grade 9 math testing will not take place in high schools across the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board this week, and the chair of the school board says there's uncertainty about what that ...

Standardized math tests slated to start Monday for Grade 9 students have been thrown into uncertainty as Education Minister Stephen Lecce gives school boards across Ontario the authority to postpone ...