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How teaching math has changed

Alberta’s math curriculum is based on the Western and Northern Canadian Protocol for collaboration in education. Education ministers from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories signed the protocol in 1993. It provides the broad framework each jurisdiction follows to develop its own curriculum for subjects in Kindergarten through Grade 12. The first common mathematics framework came out in 1995 and 1996, and was updated in 2006 and 2008.

Alberta Education started rolling out the current math curriculum in 2008, on a staggered schedule across K-12 grades.

Alberta Education information for parents highlights these differences between how math was taught in the past and how it is taught today:

Then: teachers used direct instruction to show students how to solve questions and students copied steps from the board

Now: Students work together on math tasks and the teacher offers guidance when needed.

Then: Students memorized procedures to solve routine problems

Now: Students apply mathematical and logical reasoning to solve unique problems

Then: Students worked independently on multiple similar questions

Now: Students work together and communicate about the mathematics they are using

Then: Math was seen as a collection of isolated concepts and procedures

Now: Math is a way of understanding, interpreting and describing the world, and seeing connections between concepts and how they apply in the real world