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AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. The Reform Merry-Go-Round Fad is the wrong word, says Larry Cuban, an emeritus professor at Stanford University who writes a blog about school reforms.

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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. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. In fact, there is a great deal of research support for consistent retrieval practice and self-testing to build automaticity with number facts.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. Mistakes are valuable.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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MAY 3, 2021

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides. Students researched online as often as in the library. Class screens became more norm than abnorm(al).

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Scientix

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

CC-By provided by the author The Mathematics for Sustainable Development (MaSuD) Erasmus+ project combines two educational issues: math anxiety and raising awareness on environmental issues. To address these two educational issues, we decided to create the context of learning mathematics through open-ended environment related problems.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. So what makes PBL different?

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ED Surge

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 newly distributed federal stimulus funds now in hand, school districts nationwide are poised to set learning recovery plans in motion.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. About 28 percent of high school girls reported that they avoid classes with low female enrollment.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. Those attempting to reform this practice contend that all students are mathematically brilliant, he says. That was true in San Francisco, Nguyen says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. In the classroom, researchers don’t know much about what works for anxiety, Ganley says. But Ganley suggests that the research doesn’t support any blanket statements. It’s given her severe anxiety.

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Cool Cat Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lydia Gonzalez, author of “Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education,” talks about the societal norms that make it acceptable to be “bad at math” and how these beliefs can be detrimental to learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

Tony Lam, head of mathematics at Marymount Primary School in Hong Kong, recognized the mindset change required to create a student-centered coding experience. EdSurge: How would you describe the CoolThink curriculum adoption for your school?

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Briggs, has an interesting take on summer school, why you should start thinking about it now–in the Fall–and how to do that. I think you’ll find this interesting: Helping students to select the right summer school. Research their interests.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). Figures from Pew Research Center indicate that Black and Hispanic workers and students are vastly underrepresented in STEM occupations and education programs.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2022

But the sudden reliance on edtech during global school closures also painfully exposed some of its current weaknesses. These issues should be addressed urgently to stop undermining edtech’s vast potential to improve learning —whether in day-to-day school settings, or during humanitarian emergencies, such as the one unfolding in Ukraine.

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MAY 22, 2024

This less-than-ideal scenario can be dealt with successfully if you’re savvy about how you approach it – so here are a few creative ways to reduce costs, free up more of your time, and still do your best for the youngsters you’re responsible for schooling. Transform assessments into fun learning games with Kahoot!

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ED Surge

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. But, Kramer says, the research does serve a purpose by adding to the store of evidence that these methods work.

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MAY 2, 2022

Why tech and the teacher who manages it in your school has become more important than ever. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning. I teach online education grad school classes. GBL and Remote Teaching.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

The lab starts filling up after school lets out. Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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MAY 10, 2023

School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides. Students researched online as often as in the library. That made the tech teacher (or whatever you call her in your school) the cornerstone to all things education, which brings me to the gist of this article: Teacher Appreciation Week.

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APRIL 12, 2020

A growing focus of schools is STEM. People keen on mathematics, physics, or IT were awe-inspiring and seemed to have supernatural abilities. STEM is an acronym that stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They offer grants not only to students of higher education institutions but at a school level too.

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MAY 4, 2022

“Eighty-seven percent of teachers and 77% of parents agree teaching that inspires creativity has a bigger payoff for students” This according to Gallup research (To read more of the report, click here ). Kids don’t go to school just to learn classical subjects such as history, math, or geography.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. Thursday just after lunch, Neil Brown and I are presenting our paper, Confidence vs Insight: Big and Rich Data in Computing Education Research 13:45 – 14:10 at Meeting Room D135. What was their school like?)

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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. public schools provide students with computers.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Instead, he says, the group is experimenting with using data that schools have about their students — including from after-school activities like sports, clubs and internships — to measure and track progress on skills including communication, collaboration and critical thinking. “So You're speaking too quickly.’

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JANUARY 14, 2021

However, over the past few months, kids have largely been cooped up at home due to the impact of COVID-19; the lack of access to a tried-and-true schooling process and resources will result in young children missing out on foundational concepts in literature, math and science that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2024

Amid the chaotic deluge of new generative AI tools, claims and calamities inundating school leaders, Carnegie Learning has been all in on AI for nearly 25 years. The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. We have the researchers who have studied it for 25 years.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For them, there’s obviously a leak somewhere in the school-to-jobs pipeline. Just one in 10 tech workers are Latino, and while Latino college students are choosing STEM fields in college more frequently , they earn only about 12 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

If policymakers and education leaders can see how valuable the tools can be for [achieving] their existing goals, then they're hooked and more open to having the AI conversations and passing on that support to all the school districts and teachers whom they serve. What are the equity and ethical considerations when it comes to AI use? .

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MARCH 21, 2018

Finding webtools for high school classes requires a different set of metrics than those that apply to lower and middle school searches. By high school, the pressure to prepare students for their future is immense. Of course they do! They aren’t interested in replacing the usual tools or facilitating rote drills.

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ED Surge

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. Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. This revived interest is also backed by research.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

All of these come from student prior knowledge, collaboration with a knowledgeable classmate, or individual research. If that sounds a lot like Common Core’s Standards for Mathematical Practice, it’s because it is. Minecraft sounds like it’s about geology, but it’s much more. Problem Solving.

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JANUARY 28, 2022

This is especially important with multi-player games like Minecraft (you will close the system at school, but that may not be the case in the student’s home). Describe research you did to make your Minecraft world more realistic and workable. You’ll put long hours in researching, studying, managing, and few will thank you.

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