Utah has been engaging parents as part of a strategy to make math fun for their children and overcome the mentality of, "I'm not a math person." As part of that effort, the Utah STEM Action Center, a division of…
What should be kept constant? What can be said from the measurement results? When studying science, it is inevitable that you will worry about test scores.How many important terms have I memorized?How many pages of the workbook have…
Joshua Biro reports from an online workshop he held to find out how we know if a student has really understood a piece of physics How do you know when a student has really understood a piece of physics? That…
The activity in the room may look like learning, but how can teachers be sure? These three interconnected strategies can help. One of the biggest challenges for math teachers is consistently recognizing a student’s thought process. Research has shown that…
The House Education and Workforce Committee released its report on antisemitism in K-12 schools this week, and it’s a bombshell. The report details structural antisemitism – not merely incidents – in the Philadelphia and Berkeley school districts as well as in the National…
Sibley-Ocheyedan Elementary School first-grade students count up to integers of 10 during class on Monday afternoon. Sibley-Ocheyedan Elementary School first-grade students count to integers of 10 during class on Monday afternoon. The district implemented curriculum changes to allow for group-based efforts in…
“We have not felt valued in this process,” said middle school math teacher Kate Waldron at the Wednesday meeting, noting she was speaking as both a teacher and parent. “I fully support the [math teacher] statement shared with the Board.
In 2010, California introduced Common Core curriculum across the state, with the goal of shifting public classroom instruction — and especially math instruction — to focus more on problem solving, reasoning, and an integrated approach that combines algebra with geometry, and less on…
The Newport Public Education Foundation will host a free community screening of the documentary “Counted Out” on Monday, Nov. 2, at 6:30 p.m. at Rogers High School, with a discussion afterward. The foundation and Newport Public Schools will also use the…
At the Board of Education meeting on Oct. 14, the new math pathway changes were passed with a unanimous 5-0 vote for the 2027-28 school year. The current pathways were adopted ten years ago, and the new pathways are set to reintroduce the…
Math curriculum and standards debates: state math frameworks and laws such as California's SB 1067, 'woke math', textbooks and curriculum adoption in schools.
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