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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Looking for resources for your students?

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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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DECEMBER 19, 2024

For the United States, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed more than 20 years of progress in math scores, based on results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Middling Middle School Math In terms of eighth-grade math, the U.S.

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens of the AI Learning Framework. AI readiness ensures that students can thrive in the future as informed users and developers of emerging technologies, including AI.

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MARCH 14, 2025

Two math celebrations are coming up: Pi Day and World Maths Day Pi Day Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant (pi). The competition measures speed in arithmetic and numeracy skills on the Live Mathletics platform and runs for 48 hours and is open to all schools around the world.

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MAY 13, 2021

I get a lot of interest from high school teachers about teaching databases. One of our Ask a Tech Teacher contributors explains… Is It Worth Teaching School Kids SQL? These digital tools allow users to query vast amounts of information based on specific areas of interest. One of those strategies is SQL. What is SQL, you ask?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

million public school students perform below NAEP Basic and struggle with fluency in reading connected text. In mathematics, teachers can have written poetry or scripts featuring dialogues between geometric shapes. John Dewey advocated for school activities to reflect real-life experiences. Research shows that approximately 1.27

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The 100th day of school is a special milestone celebrated in many educational institutions around the world. It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. It’s 54 pages and perfect for ages Pre-K-2.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Early numeracy encompasses fundamental mathematical concepts and skills young learners acquire before formal schooling. Just as early literacy sets the stage for reading comprehension, early numeracy establishes a critical foundation for mathematical thinking and problem-solving.

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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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MARCH 14, 2025

CC-BY, provided by author At Luko Elementary School during the 2023/2024 school year, students from 5th and 7th grades, along with their teacher Ruica Miki, participated in a variety of activities during math classes as part of the school project Fun Mathematics. years of experience.

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MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Getting into algebra early is thought to improve college attractiveness, and the course is often a high school graduation requirement.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Endless drills, repetitive problem sets, and old-school memorization techniques can make even the most curious minds switch off. The problem is that most teaching methods do not expose these fascinating aspects of mathematics. For many students, the struggle isn’t about intelligence but how math is taught.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Returning to Rigorous Mathematics –December 16, 2021. There’s an old joke about how kids are forced to learn algebra and trigonometry in school, but have no use for those subjects in real life. Why do trades like this require so much mathematics? ” What Is Technical Mathematics?

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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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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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MARCH 6, 2024

The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration of maths taking place on the 14th of March. All countries are invited to participate in activities for students and the general public in schools, museums, libraries and other spaces.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Elementary schools, high schools, universities and even vocational training courses are ideal places to incorporate 3D printing as part of the curriculum. . 3D printing and mathematics can work together perfectly in order to create accurate representations of hard to grasp mathematical concepts. About the Author.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

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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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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Auctioned Military.com has a multi-part review of the test, with tips and strategies and what it means to your military future: The ASVAB is a timed multi-aptitude test, which is given at over 14,000 schools and Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) nationwide and is developed and maintained by the Department of Defense. military.

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OCTOBER 30, 2021

Civics in Schools. Rigorous Mathematics. Here’s a preview of what’s coming up on Ask a Tech Teacher in November: Tracts and Genius Hour: A Great Combination. Halloween projects, lesson plans, apps, and a costume. Digital Storytelling. College or Career. Google Earth Lesson Plans. Geography Awareness Week.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2022

Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration of maths taking place on the 14th of March. All countries are invited to participate through activities for both students and the general public in schools, museums, libraries and other spaces.

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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, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. Probably not.

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JUNE 9, 2023

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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JUNE 8, 2023

It’s no secret many parents are frustrated with public schools. 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. Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. A room of educators gets schooled on the rigors of mathematical modeling in the life sciences. What’s your morning process?”

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. This is unacceptable, to say the least, and it is the fault of schools and educators that math learning in the Black community is not prioritized. Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events. Looking for resources for your students?

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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 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. I’d love to hear what creative gift you gave your school’s tech teacher. That’s it.

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