ED Surge
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.
Educators Technology
AUGUST 30, 2022
Generation Genius is an educational website that offers standards-based K-8 video lessons covering various science and math topics. Generation Genius also offers a monthly homekit that contains supplies to help kids (under the supervision of adults) carry out hands-on science experiments at home.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2023
About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” The students have voted with their feet, Van Valkenburgh adds.
All About STEM
AUGUST 28, 2024
British Science Week starts on the 7th of March 2025 and the theme will be ‘Change & Adapt’ During the week, schools are encouraged to celebrate with STEM activities and events. Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths can all be linked to changes in nature, technology, space, and more.
ED Surge
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. There are math requirements for those majors.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2024
A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. For a long time, I would have said I wasn’t a math person either. As the U.S.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s like math anxiety — they think they can’t do it,” the professor says of some students. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.
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