Rome, June 19. (LaPresse) – “The written tests for the 2026 final exams confirm a specific educational choice: to relate knowledge to students’ reality and experience, asking them not only to remember and apply, but to understand and argue.” This is stated in a statement from the MIM, Ministry of Education and Merit. “We wanted a final exam that wasn’t an abstract exercise, but a living test, capable of speaking to the present and future of our students,” says the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara. Every detail was designed to enhance solid knowledge, but also to exercise one’s freedom of thought and ability to deal with the complexity of the world”.From the first to the second test, the common thread was clear: starting from reality and arriving at theory. “This is the approach I have indicated for the mathematics revolution and which will also be at the centre of the new National Indications – continues the Minister -. Mathematics must be rigorous, but also capable of opening up to an understanding of reality. It’s not just about applying formulas: you have to interpret, argue, make choices”.
Valditara: “We wanted a live test.”
Rome, June 19. (LaPresse) – “The written tests for the 2026 final exams confirm a specific educational choice: to relate knowledge to students’ reality and experience, asking them not only to remember and apply, but to understand and argue.” This is stated in a statement from the MIM, Ministry of Education and Merit. “We wanted a final exam that wasn’t an abstract exercise, but a living test, capable of speaking to the present and future of our students,” says the Minister of Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara. Every detail was designed to enhance solid knowledge, but also to exercise one’s freedom of thought and ability to deal with the complexity of the world”.From the first to the second test, the common thread was clear: starting from reality and arriving at theory. “This is the approach I have indicated for the mathematics revolution and which will also be at the centre of the new National Indications – continues the Minister -. Mathematics must be rigorous, but also capable of opening up to an understanding of reality. It’s not just about applying formulas: you have to interpret, argue, make choices”.
