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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? According to the study, learners who only received teacher training and did not engage with the online learning tools had poorer achievement scores. Teachers enjoy a boost in student engagement The use of interactive technology helps make lessons fascinating.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. Steffe’s work on the importance of students constructing their own mathematical understanding rather than passively receiving information.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

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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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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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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. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. “I

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Competitive Coders Are the Future of Esports and the Rising Stars of Computer Science

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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. The transition to the more advanced CodeCombat platform is easy, and players can quickly advance to competitive head-to-head arenas, which are built into the curriculum.

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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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This includes : grades 6–8 Math curriculum. A growing body of research names curriculum as a critical factor in academic success. However, teachers are scrapped for time and can’t spend hours scoping and sequencing curriculum if we want them to individualize instruction. EL Education K–5 Language Arts. Reading with Relevance.

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How Game-Based Learning Develops Real-World Skills

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While our curriculum is traditional in the sense that it must follow the common core standards, the delivery is very different. For example, in middle school, students might do a role-playing game for the semester while studying molecules and the human body. And, of course, it has to be mathematically accurate.

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