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 studentshow 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 walkout in prov

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