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Rural students in Manitoba can do math, and they are getting better at it all the time.
That statement might seem counterintuitive given what you have heard recently about Manitobaâs poor success rate on international tests, but it is time to stop painting all students and educators in the province with the same brush. There are success stories when it comes to learning math and rural Manitobans need to be aware of the excellent teaching and learning happening in their own backyards. An improvement of 18% â 39% on studentsâ math scores over a couple of years is worth examining further.