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Canada results revealed that students were weak in Mathematics while they were fine in reading and writing.

The Education Quality and Assessment Office testing results for Grade 3 & 6 were released by the Waterloo Region District School Board on Wednesday. The EQAO results showed good progress in terms of writing and reading. However, students were not equally good at division and multiplication. There was one per cent increase in Grade 3 math results whereas there was four per cent decrease in Grade 6 math results, 570News reported.

According to Intelligencer, there test results revealed an objective understanding about how well the students fared in terms of the curriculum. Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board superintended of education Cathy Portt said that they were trying to get an idea of the weaknesses of the students by the test results. "It is one important source of data that we look at when we're planning forward for literacy and numeracy," Portt said, "We are taking a look at what those gaps are in the students and certainly will be focusing very intently on closing those gaps, and understanding what those skills are that the students do have, and where those areas are that we need to focus instruction on."

Mathematics has been considered to be a part of the 2014-2015 Board Improvement Plan for Student Achievement. Assistant Superintendent of Learning Services Scott Miller said that they were developing the strategies and looking at the present practices in Mathematics to improve the results over time. He also said that boys of Grade 3 & 6 had fared much better in writing and reading over the previous five years. The gap between girls and boys were also closing, he said.

According to Miller, the results did not show the entire picture of the assessment process. "It is results we certainly look at and analyze, but it's one small part of the other things we do, in making decision to inform, how we're going to support our staff and how were going to look at improving student learning." He said.

The Grade 9 results for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test and mathematics assessment are going to release on Sept 24.

Contact the writer: s.mukhopadhyay@ibtimes.com.au