Mathematics will again be taught to all high school students in the general stream from the first class at the start of the 2023 school year, the National Education recently announced.
An hour and a half of mathematics will be made compulsory for all first general students who have not chosen the mathematics specialty, said the Ministry of National Education in a press release.
The return of compulsory maths is part of a strategy led by the Minister of National Education aimed at making 2023 "the year of promotion of mathematics" with the key to two objectives "to reconcile all students" with this discipline and “promote equality between girls and boys”.
This strategy declines a battery of measures including the establishment of groups with reduced numbers in mathematics in 6th grade or objectives such as that of parity between girls and boys by 2027 in the mathematics, physics-chemistry or mathematics specialties. most selective reputable experts.
Although France is renowned for its tradition of excellence in mathematical research with 13 winners of the Fields medal often presented as the equivalent of the "Nobel for maths", French students face increasing difficulties in learning discipline. Thus a quarter of the students do not have the expected level in mathematics at the end of the third class, recalls the ministry in its press release. _AF
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