On the last day of classes in June, some Grade 9 students left Alicia Burdess' classroom in tears after agonizing over the standardized math test. Some gave up, leaving swaths of the answer sheet ...

Grade 9 students in the province will be getting a mandatory math makeover that education officials expect will add up to better results and an improved learning experience in the core subject.

Provincewide, Grade 9 math results for 2017-18 were also poor, with only 66.7 per cent of students achieving acceptable standards for the PAT last year, a more than 10-per-cent drop from 75.5 per ...