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A\u00a0Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0editorial<\/a>\u00a0describes how Canadian provinces have generally fared worse in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) math rankings since 2006, after adopting \u201cdiscovery learning\u201d\u00a0– even though a\u00a0review by Kirschner et al. (2006,\u00a0Educ Psychol<\/em>)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>of a hundred empirical studies found no support for the superiority of \u201cinstruction using minimal guidance\u201d. Quebec, which resisted the adoption, continues to fare relatively well. Alberta had been reforming its math education since the 1990s to emphasize \u201cback to basics\u201d instruction and rigorous testing, but its simultaneous increase in math scores ended after the province adopted discovery learning around 2008. Both Alberta and Ontario have announced that they will re-emphasize \u201cbasic math facts\u201d including multiplication tables.<\/p>\n\n\n

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