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Ontario will invest $55 million this year to help improve student math skills through mandatory math tests for new teachers, enhanced summer learning and the hiring of more math-teaching experts, Education Minister Stephen Lecce says.

The announcement came Wednesday as EQAO released standardized testing results that confirmed student math scores are on a multi-year decline.

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The math curriculum will be revamped with an emphasis on the basics.

The discovery math curriculum brought in by the previous provincial government is not adding up to improved student results, Lecce said.

“And young kids today are paying the price for a blind adherence to a form of teaching that really wasn’t working for kids in the province.”

The Doug Ford government is proposing a four-year, $200-million math strategy that would begin this September with the hiring of math-learning leads at school boards, training and coaching for elementary and secondary teachers to better teach math skills, summer learning programs to help children retain math, and subsidized qualification math courses for educators.