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Can ‘Math Therapists’ Make a Dent In America’s Declining Math Performance?

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Though they may not usually call themselves therapists, its relatively common for instructional coaches to think about their work in this way, according to DeAnn Huinker, a professor of mathematics education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker.

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To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

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Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. As hopeful as this scenario sounds, mathematics is a struggle for many learners. Nationally, mathematics achievement on average remains low with glaring, persistent inequities across racial and ethnic groups.

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Teaching Math

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Studies show that mathematical reasoning ability is crucial in early education, and when children understand math before entering elementary school, they have higher achievement on both reading and math tests later in their school years.

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Math Anxiety Hurts Too Many Kids. Here’s How We Can Curb It.

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In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities.

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How Magnolia ISD ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math

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Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

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Kaufman and Holmes published a report in February that suggests large and low-poverty middle schools tend to use achievement-based tracking more for math placements than their high-poverty counterparts. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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And the latest national assessment scores in 4th and 8th grade were historically low , a troubling early sign that more students may get stuck when they encounter more advanced mathematics in high school and college, possibly deterring them from pursuing STEM studies. She’s found that teachers have high levels of math anxiety.

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