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Why kids don’t get math and what Idaho schools are doing about it

October 3, 2005 /

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Take thousands of Idaho middle school students. Add percentages, fractions, decimal points and their ability to solve math problems.

What do you get?

Fewer and fewer kids who grasp math as they move toward high school.

Spring 2005 Idaho Standards Achievement Test results show nine out of 10 Idaho fourth-graders are proficient in math. But by 10th grade, that number drops to seven out of 10.

Only a third of Idaho’s sixth-graders and half of its eighth-graders successfully completed a different 2005 statewide exam in which students had to show their work in solving math problems.

Bill Roberts
The Idaho Statesman

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