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We know the struggle with mathematics—for both teachers and students—all too well. Students’ math scores, as per the “Nation’s Report Card,” have plunged to record lows. Misconceptions in early grades ...
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — High school students across the state are learning virtually after the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services enacted its three-week epidemic order on November 15. The ...
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 ...
The divide makes it less likely that students who struggle will get access to proven strategies, researchers argue in a new study.
In the latest version of the Nation’s Report Card, students’ math scores fell an average of five points for fourth graders and eight points for eighth graders nationwide. This historic drop in scores ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - State lawmakers are introducing a bill that could bring virtual reality into the classrooms for middle and high school students. This is already being used in many schools across ...
Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...
Student work posted in an elementary school before the pandemic shows the “partial product” method of solving a multiplication problem, one of many methods students have learned with Common Core.
HAMPTON, Va. - Some students are getting ready to return to classrooms after spending much of the pandemic learning from home. Throughout this time, one longtime Hampton Roads math teacher and tutor ...
Teaching students how to get the right answer in math class is one thing. Getting to the conceptual level of understanding, however, is where some Nebraska teachers say they struggle. Merritt Nelson ...
WEST COLUMBIA — Sims Boland was only months into his teaching career when the outbreak of COVID-19 shut down his school. The eighth grade math teacher at Fulmer Middle School had his classes moved ...
Singapore math was developed by that Southeast Asian country’s Ministry of Education decades ago. It is a teaching style that ...