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How the Vocabulary Math Teachers Use Affects Student Learning
7+ hour, 16+ min ago (837+ words) Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But teachers who use them regularly are more likely to boost student math scores, new research finds. The paper…...
How to Make Every Student Feel Like a ‘Math Person’ (Opinion)
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (388+ words) Even as big curricular battles rage on, some teachers are looking to modest pedagogical tweaks they can embrace now. In a 2022 post, Opinion blogger Larry Ferlazzo combed through 11 years" worth of columns to identify some teacher advice for improving math…...
Want Students to Gain Math Confidence? Celebrate Their Mistakes (Opinion)
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (754+ words) Wendy W. Amato is the chief academic officer at K12 Coalition, which provides educational products and services. She also teaches in the University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development. Want Students to Gain Math Confidence? Celebrate Their Mistakes In the…...
Math for Every Learner: A Systems-Level Approach to Student and Teacher Empowerment
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (170+ words) We've all heard the phrase "I'm not a math person." We've studied it, offered reform around it, and acknowledged its costs. Yet, too often, conversations about barriers to math achievement stop at ... Math for Every Learner: A Systems-Level Approach to…...
Students Make Mistakes. Here Are Better Ways to Correct Them (Opinion)
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (1088+ words) Today's post continues a series offering suggestions on how to best respond when students make mistakes. Sarah Nichols is a national-board-certified teacher and a Utah Teacher Fellow in Salt Lake City: For example, if my learning goal for them involves…...
Girls Have Fallen Behind Boys in Math. Schools Try to Make Up Lost Ground
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (1139+ words) Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, nothing happened. The teacher at the Dallas-area school…...
Want Students to Be Better in Science? Bolster Their Math Skills
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1060+ words) Students in Kristen Gonsoir's classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working in groups on a particularly tricky word problem: If…...
How Should We Teach Math? General and Special Ed. Researchers Don't Agree
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (1244+ words) About a decade ago, leaders at the Kentucky Department of Education set out to develop guidelines for what quality math instruction should looked like in the state, convening educators from the general education and special education teams at the agency....
How Teachers in This District Pushed to Have Students Spend Less Time Testing
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (848+ words) Corrected: A previous version of this article misstated the consequences for low-performing schools related to state and federally required testing. Students in one Arizona district will take fewer standardized tests this school year, the result of an educator-led push to…...
Do Math and Grade-Level Instruction Need a Divorce? (Opinion)
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (378+ words) Education policy maven Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute think tank offers straight talk on matters of policy, politics, research, and reform. Read more from this blog. The future of math education will begin with the divorce of a…...