Math: Grade 3 on a 5 does not have the level CM2 – TF1

That does not necessarily deprive Najat Vallaud-Belkacem as she attempts to validate its reform of college and meets with critics denouncing a race to the bottom. According to a study released by Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France and conducted by the Ministry of Education, the college level mathematics declined in six years.

The study of a representative sample of 8,000 college students from grades 3, 323 enrolled in college public and private contracted in 2014 , one in five was able to handle only very simple exercises, CM2 level or early college. In addition, the percentage of students with very low or low level from 15% to 19.5% in six years.

Meanwhile, if the average levels of both groups remain about the same, that of Grade 3 good level in math loses almost 3 percentage points (15.3% in 2014 against 18.6% in 2008). The group of “super-mathematicians” meanwhile remains stable at 9.1%.

Worrisome declines in computing

This “national assessment of college students by discipline (Cedre) examined math this year. This type of study is carried out every six years for each subject in order to measure changes in the level of the students. In mathematics, college students were tested on their ability to solve mathematical problems on their Knowledge of definitions, their ability to reason.

According to Catherine Moisan, Director of the Deep (Evaluation Directorate, Planning and Performance of the Ministry of Education ), quoted by Le Parisien, the results in maths are “of concern”. “What really down, it is the technical mastery (decimal calculations, the beginning of literal calculation …) which can hardly happen in everyday life. The social gap is widening. The college does well good students succeed and advantaged students, “she explains. But the results down to others.

These results confirm the international study carried Pisa in 2012 in 65 OECD countries. Their publication comes as the reform of the college supported by the Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is highly contested, especially his critics denouncing a “leveling down.”