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The number of Alberta students who are functionally innumerate has doubled in recent years. These Grade Four girls and boys canât add and subtract, canât measure things and canât analyze basic data.
In 2007, only six per cent of our students fell into this category, but in 2015 that percentage shot up to 13.2 per cent.
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In 2019, the most recent year we have data for Alberta Grade 4 students from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), that number was 12 per cent.
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