1/n On Monday, the Manitoba government quietly removed ALL subject requirements for teachers in Manitoba. They don't have to take ANY math, English, science, history. Manitoba will have the weakest requirements for teachers in all of Canada. @WabKinew @nello4transcona 2/n This erased years of advocacy from post-secondary mathematicians, calling for higher math standards for K-8 teachers. We advocated for an increase from one course to two. That change came into effect in 2015.

1/n So here's the evidence we were given for BTC. You can go through & count the red flags based on the guide (it fails on every count), or you can use common sense. B/c anyone should be able to tell within 5 minutes that there's no evidence here that kids learned anything at all. projects.ias.edu/pcmi/hstp/sum2… 2/n For example, how did he measure effectiveness? Why by proxies for engagement of course! Ummm... I thought this was about thinking? So why not measure thinking? How do you tell someone has thought about math? If they can actually solve a math problem. But no, he measured engagement.