Edited sentence: Canada dropped six spots between 2003 and 2013 on the international PISA mathematics test and the province of Ontario had even deeper declines with a drop in eight spots (Huang, 2014).Discovery learning was introduced in the early 2000s where the emphasis transitioned from direct to inquiry-based instruction.Discovery-based instruction has been linked to the continual decline of Canadian students' mathematic performance as indicated by international and provincial test scores (Stokke, 2015).The Education Quality and Accountability (EQAO) Ontario testing results for the 2016–2017 school year indicated that only 62% of primary and 50% of junior students meet the provincial mathematic standard (EQAO, 2017).These scores have also declined since implementation of the program five years ago