Article content

MONTREAL — Ontario needn’t look too far to find ideas on how to improve its students’ math scores after Premier Kathleen Wynne’s announcement Wednesday her government would begin public consultations to overhaul the school curriculum.

Education experts in Quebec credit one main reason why students in the province consistently top the country’s math rankings: Quebec teachers are better trained.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or It adds up: The reason students' math scores are higher in Quebec than in the rest of Canada Back to video

A bachelor of education in Quebec takes four years to complete, during which future teachers spend at least 700 hours in elementary or secondary classrooms.

In Ontario, teachers often get a four-year undergraduate diploma before starting a two-year teaching degree.

Before 2015 in Ontario, teachers received only one year of training — meaning most of the teachers in classrooms in that province have been trained one-fourth as long as their Quebec colleagues.

Annie Savard, a professor at McGill University’s department of integrated studies in education, has just finished conducting research on how mathematics is taught in high schools across Canada.