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Report: MCPS High School Students Flunking Math Finals
A review of test scores for algebra, geometry, algebra II and precalculus showed that a majority of students failed the final exam last year, local news outlets reported.
More than half of high school students in Montgomery County Public Schools didn't pass last semester's math finals, according to reports in The Examiner newspaper and WAMU.org.
Data from MCPS, released after parents at Rockville High began anecdotally comparing test scores, according to WAMU, show that students across the system failed bedrock mathematics course finals—algebra and algebra II, geometry and precalculus.
Course
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Algebra
Algebra II
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Geometry
Precalculus
Final Exam Failure (%)
61
57
62
48
Those percentages add up to about 11,000 students not passing final math exams out of 19,000 who took the exams, Examiner reported.
Dana Tofig, spokesman for MCPS, said the system is forming a task force to investigate the high rate of failures.
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