Why is France ranked among the last in mathematics in Europe?
Audio 48:30
The importance of mathematics © Pixabay / CCO Creative commons
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
50 min
France still follows the United States on the first steps of the podium of countries distinguished by the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel Prize for mathematics.
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However, according to the latest
Timms study
published at the end of 2020, the level of students in CM1 and 4th class in math and science in France ranks the country as a dunce.
What consequences in the medium term?
How to reverse the trend?
With:
Monica Neagoy
, former professor of mathematics at
Georgetown University (USA),
teacher
in mathematics, member of the
Villani-Torossian Mission
and author of numerous works including books on the Singapore method (method of teaching mathematics) trainer of this method and speaker
Jean-Yves CHEVALIER,
mathematics teacher in preparatory classes for the grandes écoles
Salim BRIGUI,
middle school and high school math teacher in Hauts de France and creator of the
Youtube channel Maths and Ma Team
At the end of the program,
the chronicle of the psychologist Ibrahima GIROUX, Parents, children, here and elsewhere
: Why so many challenges in the education of children?
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here
A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist at UNICEF in Dakar.
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