“In France, our good students are not good enough, and not numerous enough” | EUROtoday

TEvery 4 years, France receives its math report card, and each 4 years, it is the identical catastrophe. Published this Wednesday, December 4, the outcomes of the most recent version of Timss, which measures the efficiency in arithmetic and science of CM1 and 4 college students^edon’t deviate from the rule. With 484 factors in arithmetic, France is at 42^e world place out of the 58 international locations in contrast for the CM1 class and the final nation within the European Union, between Kazakhstan (497) and Montenegro (477). In 4^ethe outcomes are hardly extra wonderful, since with 479 factors our nation is situated at 24^e place in 44 international locations, between Israel (479) and Azerbaijan (475). Only Portugal is doing much less nicely in Europe.