As students across Canada head back to school, one math education expert says many young learners may struggle with education gaps brought on by pandemic-related school closures in the past two and a half years.
Vanessa Vakharia, who runs a math tutoring studio in Toronto, explains that a learning gap refers to a student’s missing some foundational knowledge that they should have learned previously in order to understand current material.
During COVID-19 restrictions that forced schools to move to online learning, Vakharia notes that many teachers weren't able to get through the whole curriculum and may have missed some units. At the same time, she says many students may have had to miss some classes due to their own pandemic-related reasons.
"It's very hard to diagnose what the gap is as a parent and not a math teacher. So if you have a kid who's having that sensation of, 'I'm just not getting it, I'm struggling. I feel like I'm hitting this stumbling block…' that's when you can kind of say, 'There is a gap and we should kind of look into this,'" she explained.
"They are the expert in the classroom. They're the ones who can say, 'Okay, you know what I'm noticing on your kids test? It's that they really have no idea how to divide.' They can say something like that," she said.
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