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  • Teachers' math skills 'alarmingly weak' ( Canada )

    09/11/2011 9:59:06 AM PDT · by george76 · 53 replies
    Winnipeg Free Press ^ | 09/10/2011 | Nick Martin
    Math professors are appalled at the lack of math skills they see in some education students -- who in turn can't adequately teach math to their own students when they get in a classroom. "We've kind of been watching a train wreck," University of Winnipeg math Prof. Anna Stokke said Friday. So far, 184 people have signed a petition demanding far higher standards for admission to faculties of education, 173 of them math, science and engineering professors. They're demanding the provincial government beef up high school graduation requirements for people intending to become teachers. Some teachers didn't get adequate math...