EDMONTON — An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent."

Maren Aukerman, an education professor at the University of Calgary, says the nearly 200-page "tool kit" hops from one topic to another without context and barely aligns with the provincial curriculum.

It tries to teach Grade 1 students how to multiply.

Grade 3 students learn how to count American money — not Canadian.

And Grade 4 students are instructed in drawing triangles — an activity for those in Grade 1.

"There are layers upon layers of problems with it ... nothing makes sense," Aukerman said in an interview.

"It is incoherent."

The province's 51,000 teachers at 2,500 schools went off the job Monday in the largest w

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