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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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But TeachFX, she adds, is focused not on her students’ achievements, but instead on her performance as a teacher. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. “With other classroom tools, I have to collect the data myself.

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Project: History of mathematics

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Picture provided by the author, attribution CC-B Y Thinking about how to make mathematics interesting for children and how to prompt and encourage them to independently research, search and “dig” new information on Internet, I decided to start a new project at the school level: “History of Mathematics”.

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How To Boost Student Engagement: Modern Tools for Math Teachers

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These same reports show that teachers and students stand to gain these additional benefits: Learners get a chance to apply mathematical solutions to everyday problems Teachers can stimulate real-life situations where regular people and professionals use math formulas to solve problems. And it’s a great way to get more done.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. Do you see what I’m doing?

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Free Summer Olympics Activities for Kids

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As the excitement of the Summer Olympics captivates audiences worldwide, this global event offers a fantastic opportunity to engage kids in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Country Reports An engaging classroom activity during the Olympics is having students select a participating country to research and report on.

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To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom

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A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. This revived interest is also backed by research. Initially, the questions didn’t improve at all.

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Concrete change: the innovative chemistry of sustainable cement

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The chemistry of cement It is the use of resources, especially raw materials, that forms the current focus of Theo’s research. This could be by-products from steel manufacturing or mineral mining, or even the reprocessing of old cement from construction or demolition sites. The UK cement industry uses about 12.5