Louise Sallé, edited by Solène Leroux 06:42, August 25, 2022

Only one week left before the start of the school year, and the support courses are full.

Especially in mathematics, a discipline that will become compulsory again next year, in first and final year.

Europe 1 attended one of these courses, for students entering first who have chosen the math specialty.

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One week before the resumption of classes, it is the period of pre-re-entry internships, and among the disciplines offered, mathematics are full.

Maths has not yet fully returned to the timetable of all high school students, since the subject is optional this year, but it will become compulsory again next year, in first and final.

However, many higher education establishments require students to have taken maths courses.

Europe 1 attended a pre-return course in Paris, at the premises of Acadomia, the French leader in tutoring, for students entering first who have chosen the math specialty.

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More difficult to integrate a big school without maths

"To start, I'm going to ask you if you have any questions about the program that awaits you."

For a week, Frédéric is the maths teacher for a class of seven students, including Apolline, 17, who is repeating her first year.

"I had not taken math, and in fact, we realize that without math now, it's a bit complicated to be able to access large schools", she says at the microphone of Europe 1. "So, I preferred to start my first again to take this option."

The students therefore get back into the bath of equations.

On the program: remarkable identities.

Frédéric details them on the board using colored pens, and then goes between the desks.

The teacher is not worried about the level of the trainees.

"It's something quite classic on a return to school like that, after two months of total inactivity for them," he says.

"Indeed, there are a lot of automatisms to restart. This is the main objective for me of the internship, to put them back on the operating mode. To make them understand that they know how to do things, it's just that 'they forgot them a bit,' continues the professor.

A thousand courses organized this week

But with the end of middle school and the start of high school during the Covid-19 pandemic, Maxime feels that the gaps have accumulated.

“There was confinement, there was the Covid, the classes were divided …”, he lists.

"The teachers weren't all there. Even the math teacher, he wasn't there for three months. It's complicated," he confirms.

At Acadomia, pre-entry math internships are on the rise.

More than 1,000 are organized this week throughout France.