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JUNE 9, 2023

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. As a result, the achievement gap between white students and Black and Hispanic students has increased.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. What Game Delivers.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

With the disturbing news about plummeting math scores here in the US, it’s good to review math teaching in your classroom and consider better ways to deliver lessons to students. The problem is that most teaching methods do not expose these fascinating aspects of mathematics. Want to teach fractions?

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Those attempting to reform this practice contend that all students are mathematically brilliant, he says. Tom Loveless, a former Brookings Institution researcher and author of a book about detracking, says that in the years after the policys adoption, assessment data shows that gaps in math achievement widened in the district.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Schools are confronting vast achievement gaps among students and an exhausted teaching force. So many bright educators love teaching and love kids, but they're physically and emotionally exhausted. Some say it’s time to finally commit to scalable personalized learning.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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JULY 25, 2023

These same reports show that teachers and students stand to gain these additional benefits: Learners get a chance to apply mathematical solutions to everyday problems Teachers can stimulate real-life situations where regular people and professionals use math formulas to solve problems.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. ByteLearn.com – Digital math teaching assistant for teachers. So there you’ve got it, the highest five mathematics tutoring online tools.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Adding monthly giving projects to STEM classes helps students learn important skills like problem-solving and teamwork while also teaching them to care about their communities. An Overview of STEM – Why It’s Relevant and Important STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Sound interesting? Let’s get into it.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

Historically, underserved communities of Black and Latino students experiencing poverty underperform in mathematics as measured by various academic indicators. The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this phenomenon, impacting teaching and learning for all students, especially students from underserved communities.

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APRIL 1, 2024

At the forefront of these challenges lies mathematics, a subject that undergoes a profound transformation as students delve into more advanced concepts. With the introduction of fractions, decimals, and geometry, the mathematical landscape becomes notably complex, posing significant hurdles for students and parents alike.

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APRIL 10, 2023

This podcast provides practical tips and strategies for teaching financial literacy to middle and high school students. From budgeting to investing, credit to debt management, you'll gain valuable insights and resources to help your students make informed financial decisions and achieve financial stability. Please try again.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. These experiences and perceptions are not isolated incidents; in fact, the majority of these responses are from Black people in my community, some of which I grew up with — and now, I teach their children.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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. In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. It left an impression.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cognitive science and research inform every product decision we make and ultimately influence the academic outcomes we achieve. We are a very results-driven company, and you can only expect to achieve success, as measured in educational outcomes, if the inputs are truly based on what science tells us works. Why am I doing this?

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MARCH 4, 2024

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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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. I love the concepts behind it, and how you’re teaching kids strategies and not just memorization.”.

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MARCH 9, 2023

It also appears multiple times for most grade levels in the Math Standards, including the Standards for Mathematical Practice. It starts with a change in mindset: You aren’t teaching a tech tool, you’re teaching its application to learning. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

And like so much during the pandemic, the losses were worse for some communities, with achievement gaps having widened during the pandemic. billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. It’s an approach that’s embraced by the revised California Math Framework , a guide for teaching math in the state.

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MAY 8, 2023

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.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. With a strong SEL program in place, schools can address learning loss while reframing the achievement gap through a new, more nuanced lens for an equitable future.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

There’s slightly more evidence that poor achievement more often fuels math anxiety than the other way around, though there’s evidence going both ways, she adds. Instead, she argues, when teachers give their students a chance to tackle these problems first, it lets students make sense of the mathematics they are learning.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. We have a responsibility to really explore that to its fullest potential.

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MAY 25, 2023

Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-B Y Mathematics is a crucial subject for every student as it provides a strong foundation for many other disciplines. However, many students struggle with mathematics due to a variety of reasons, including a lack of motivation, fear of failure, and negative attitudes towards the subject.

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MAY 22, 2024

Malkin Carnegie Learning CEO "At the root of everything we do is the goal of supporting students, teachers and leaders in raising student achievement using learning science — and AI," explains Malkin. If we can help students achieve greater and greater results, we'll have accomplished something amazing. And grow, they have.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

If you don’t teach in the United States, this might be a term you aren’t familiar with. In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography. One of the best to teach government is iCivics. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Literacy Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. It’s 54 pages and perfect for ages Pre-K-2.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate. It’s an active process toward achieving a positive state of good health and enhanced physical, mental, emotional and social well-being — four dimensions. It isn’t an event; it is something we work at forever.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Last year, only 61 percent of high school students who took the ACT English achievement test were deemed college-ready. Because by teaching, assessing knowledge, tracking progress, and personalizing to student needs, we can determine if students are accomplishing what they must to complete the work of learning. Measuring Up Live 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For 10 years, she's been part of a group of educators and staff using game-based learning to teach students how to think critically and creatively, analyze systems and ask thoughtful questions. And, of course, it has to be mathematically accurate. Many of the project-based activities and games don't necessarily have a single winner.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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JUNE 21, 2022

Since then, our game-based learning platform has been used to teach over 20 million students real-typed Python, JavaScript and C++ coding languages through the power of play. Each level challenges the player to type the code necessary to advance their hero and achieve specific gaming goals.”

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. But TeachFX, she adds, is focused not on her students’ achievements, but instead on her performance as a teacher. Teaching is hard.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

Gamers learn through repetition, failure, goal achievement in a risk-free environment and it is important that teachers use play to shape the learning experiences they create for their students. 2), written in mathematical language: Fig.1 2), written in mathematical language: Fig.1 1 (CC-BY) Fig. 1 (CC-BY) Fig.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. How to integrate Growth Mindset into your teaching. That’s growth. use a guiding webtool like Sown to Grow.

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