ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And if we are serious about student well-being, we must change the systems they learn in. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement. Does homework cause achievement or do high achievers do more homework? But correlation isn’t causation.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus. She went through a period of mourning, she says.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And like so much during the pandemic, the losses were worse for some communities, with achievement gaps having widened during the pandemic. billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. It’s an approach that’s embraced by the revised California Math Framework , a guide for teaching math in the state.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

But in college, where she’s a business major, calculus is proving insurmountable. The fear or nervousness that occurs when performing or learning math is, by some accounts, the most common form of education-related anxiety. And it also helps teachers to develop key knowledge and skills they need for teaching mathematics.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Barclay is a friend of mine, and his insight about the learning that is — or isn’t — happening in his classroom helped to shape my thinking about a question that’s been on my mind since I started reporting about recent efforts to change the way that math is taught. But many people believe that math instruction in the U.S. isn’t working.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m not talking about people choosing not to study calculus. In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities. We must invest in staffing these positions.

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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 17, 2024

Math can be an intimidating subject to learn and one that kids either like or dislike. Learning math online can take some pressure off and allow children to absorb the information more effectively. Children between 6th and 12th grades can easily find an appropriate course in algebra, geometry, algebra 2, and pre-calculus.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Engaging and interactive STEM learning experiences that cater to students’ learning styles and paces can help them develop a deep understanding and appreciation for STEM concepts. Topics such as physics and calculus deal with complex theories that can be difficult to grasp without proper guidance and real-world connections.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

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MooMoo Math & Science

APRIL 28, 2023

The answer: they have learned that there is great joy in completing a difficult task. It forced him to learn new skills and problem solve, and it brought fulfillment and purpose to his life. He saw untapped potential in his students and set a goal of teaching the first AP Calculus class at the school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

These web-based classes offer motivated students a self-paced, self-directed path to achieving their college dreams in an affordable, flexible, quality ecosystem that prepares them for future careers in fields they love. This helps students to organize their learning and finish coursework in accordance with personal goals.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Elliot wanted us to think about “Who could use what we have to teach, but might not even enter our classroom?”. ” He argued that everyone needed to learn about computer science, in order to have democratic control of these processes. Snow was a scientist who bemoaned the split between science and humanities in Western culture.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When I started teaching, videos were a rarity. This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 28, 2023

These virtual learning experiences have become my guiding stars, providing me with invaluable knowledge and strategies to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math. Get ready to launch your STEM teaching journey! That is until I discovered the empowering world of online workshops.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Many of these, educators would love to teach but “just don’t have time for “, even though they align well with broad goals of preparing students for college and career. Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School).

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The Maker Mom

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Math contests reinforce the math knowledge participants have already accumulated, teach them to problem-solve faster, and enjoy the camaraderie of working with a team in a collaborative environment. Competitions are held online at the local, state, and national levels through on-site learning with participating school classrooms.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

JUNE 15, 2023

The first installation today is about the "theory" of the class -- all the background information about the class and my philosophy of teaching it that led to the grading process that I used. Don't get me wrong: MTH 302 students are high-achieving and highly capable. There are two ways to handle this kind of compression.

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Similarly, reformers have focused on the timing of the course, aiming to enroll students as early as possible to open pathways to calculus and to diversify access to higher level mathematics. Yet we have not seen equal advances in achievement (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). 2017; Stein et al., 2005; Jacobs et al.,

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 8, 2023

A STEM-based curriculum has real-life situations that foster learning. Making science and math thrilling aids high school students in doing more than just learn. The programs mirror experimental learning and stir students’ imagination. Stem activities deliver minds-on lessons and hands-on experience for students.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Systems that exhibit high levels of autonomy or learn and adapt to their environments present a new frontier for formal methods that I am very excited to explore.”. We highly recommend reading through the NASA website – it is a brilliant resource and provides a great way of learning more about specific projects that are currently underway. •

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 9, 2015

If you don’t think textbooks, teaching and testing your knowledge of unwanted subjects will strike a chord with you, you might consider staying well away from traditional school. Enter a Big Picture Learning school, and you may be surprised to find on certain days their are no kids in school. That didn’t stop Einstein.

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Futurum

JULY 13, 2022

There are many branches of maths, including algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics. He teaches classes of university students, works on research problems, writes up his findings and mentors students as they complete their own research projects. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR? ABOUT MATHEMATICS.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. There’s a discussion about H for systems that interact, and how there’s an equilibrium value achieved. It’s exciting now, of course, to be able to use the latest 21st-century ideas to take another step.

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CTE Learning

MAY 20, 2022

In this article, we’ll help you learn more about STEM careers, and talk about some of the best majors you may want to consider for the future. For instance, STEM students are expected to be curious (having a will to learn) since they should have the urge of comprehending how stuff works. Just read on to find out more! in some cases.

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CTE Learning

MAY 20, 2022

In this article we’ll help you learn more about STEM careers, and talk about some of the best majors you may want to consider for the future. For instance, STEM students are expected to be curious (having a will to learn) since they should have the urge of comprehending how stuff works. Just read on to find out more!

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CTE Learning

MAY 20, 2018

In this article we’ll help you learn more about STEM careers, and talk about some of the best majors you may want to consider for the future. For instance, STEM students are expected to be curious (having a will to learn) since they should have the urge of comprehending how stuff works. Just read on to find out more! in some cases.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

During her undergraduate years, she learned how to code as part of a job she had with an NGO and it ignited her passion for combining both interests into a career and later, a vocation to teach kids from under-represented communities how to code. And so, I immediately said, “Well, I can teach your students how to code.”

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He used to like to tell people I’d learned a lot from him. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). And in fact I think it was only in writing this piece that I even learned he’d grown up in Los Angeles (specifically, East Hollywood).

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And so it was that I set about running programs that I later learned were a simplified version of what had been called “cellular automata” before. Nothing I’ve learned in these 36 years has dulled the strength and beauty of rule 30 and those early discoveries about complexity. There are exciting—and surprising—things.

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