[Maths-Education] Ability grouping in mathematics

[Anne Watson]

There is a useful table in the most recent TIMSS or PISA reports (cannot lay my hands on which one right now - probably TIMSS) which purports to show how different nations group students for maths teaching.

I am replying to the whole list because the claim is that in England we teach the same curriculum to different students in different ways.  Well, folks, we don't.  We end up teaching a different curriculum to different students.

Do any others of you wish to comment on how your country's differentiation practices are officially reported?

Anne Watson.