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 ...

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 ...

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 ...