ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. A room of educators gets schooled on the rigors of mathematical modeling in the life sciences. What’s your morning process?” It left an impression.

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Domina et al., 2015; Dougherty et al.,

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

Black and Latino students living in poverty have been systemically affected by factors not related to their families but rather their schools. One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools.

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Accelerate Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of course, this principle gets more complex as students age, and math instruction in elementary school looks different than in high school.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When my wife was pregnant with our first child, we often had conversations about where we would send our kids to school. These conversations were almost always rooted in fear, with the ever-present threat of gun violence in schools weighing heavy in the back of my mind. Am I Not Good at School, or Is School Not Good for Me?

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Newton STEM

MARCH 24, 2024

Acera School (5 Lowell Ave, Winchester) will host its Math Festival on Sunday, April 7, 10AM to 12PM for students in Grades K-12. Math challenges include: Algebra on Squares, Chocolate Fix, Game of Amazons, Hexahexaflexagons, Jumping Frogs, Jumping Julia, Mosaics, Rook’s Move, Skyscrapers, and Tower of Hanoi. Register online.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

Students hear a lot of advice about the importance of what they do in high school, but they aren’t all hearing the same guidance. When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they’d been given in high school, the researchers found that it was stratified by race. My school was very, like, underfunded.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons. But for a teacher with 90 students in middle school or 140 students in high school, that's very complicated to do without ongoing sources of information.”

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 24, 2022

Nicole shares how eventually she discovered Jason had ADHD and how she changed her high school classroom to reach all of the children. Episode 778 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How Do You Help Kids with ADHD Succeed in School and Life? High School Spanish Teacher and Mom of Jason, a child with ADHD. Nicole Biscotti.

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Schooling Algebra Teaching Research 273

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s an old joke about how kids are forced to learn algebra and trigonometry in school, but have no use for those subjects in real life. To excel in their profession, a welder needs to understand and calculate concepts like material usage, which requires using fractions and sometimes algebra.

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Math Construction Algebra Mathematics 274

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Alex Briggs, has an interesting take on summer school, why you should start thinking about it now–in the Fall–and how to do that. I think you’ll find this interesting: Helping students to select the right summer school. Research their interests.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.”

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Math Algebra Elementary Critical Thinking 309

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

The first big tip: College is not like High School. Excellent college preparation makes you self-aware and helps you evaluate what you’d love to do in school. If you already know the career path you want to follow, choose your high school classes based on your areas of interest.

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Algebra Achievement Curriculum Math 254

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Where this isn’t an option, they can use school computers and tablets—a viable option as 94% of U.S. public schools provide students with computers. The majority of learners are comfortable using their personal devices to access schoolwork. Teachers can use these to guide students in handling complicated math formulas.

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Accelerate Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of course, this principle gets more complex as students age, and math instruction in elementary school looks different than in high school.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Cool Math games are student friendly and can be used in school and at home. Math Playground games cover different topics including fraction games, division games, multiplication games, ratio games, pre-algebra games, geometry games, and more. These include free thinking, strategy, and logic games.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School.

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Teaching Algebra Schooling Math 263

STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As parents and educators, there are ways to get middle school students engaged in math-focused STEM activities that help increase their comprehension and retention. Math Activities for Middle School This article includes ten (10) math activities for middle school students that can be implemented in the classroom or at home.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s no secret many parents are frustrated with public schools. Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests?

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

In a letter sent to governors from all fifty states, they write, “computer science provides an essential foundation—not only for careers in technology, but for every career in today’s world,” and call upon state leaders to update curriculum to ensure that all students have an opportunity to learn computer science in school. In the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. I'm based in New York, so I know that Latinos represent 40 percent of the student population,” she says of the schools there. Read the first part here.

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Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Over time, school spends less time teaching how to read and a lot more time using using reading to support learning. Now Bootstrap is probably best known for their mix of computer science and algebra but they are moving into more areas of the curriculum and I think that is a great thing.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. I feel like this is what I needed when I was a kid going to school," explains Vallon.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

students in grades 5-12 reveals that access to school-based learning opportunities and role models is highly correlated with students’ persistence on their career journey. The study also uncovers that middle school and high school students overwhelmingly recognize the value of computer science knowledge in the U.S.

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Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 343

Computer Science Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2022

I learned about data bases in school and worked with them some in industry but that was mostly about how they work internally. and Bootstrap Algebra. I was thinking about data science lately. The problem is that I don’t know much about data science. But I never did much of anything with real work data applications.

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Computer Science Computer Science Sciences 189

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. And the fact that students learn valuable lessons in the many hours they spend outside of the classroom, too, before school, after school , on the weekends and in the summer. .

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. So it's not replacing what you see. How does augmented reality engage all students? You don’t need any special hardware.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. There are about 118 games, sorted by age group (grades 3-5, 6-8, and high school) and subject, including: Algebra Four.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 6, 2024

Try hands-on, interactive projects like building scale models to apply geometry or calculus or using coding with a programming language to apply algebra and arithmetic. Incorporating examples of math as a tool for solving real-world problems is a great way to stress the importances of and reasoning behind math as a subject.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

Though it is not well known as a Title I program, the purpose of the MEP is to provide children of migrant farmworkers with appropriate educational resources to meet state academic outcomes and acquire a high school diploma. Migrant education generally serves students from 3 to 21 years old.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2023

Whether it is for the SATs in high school, or for finals in college, when the time comes, you will feel a lot of pressure to do well. From basic algebra to advanced quantum physics, you can find resources suitable for all levels. Jot down all your commitments for the week, from school hours to extracurricular activities.

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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 17, 2024

Any of these math platforms serve as a great addition to an in-school curriculum or as a standalone lesson plan. Children between 6th and 12th grades can easily find an appropriate course in algebra, geometry, algebra 2, and pre-calculus. What makes School Yourself unique is the way that the application works.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2020

In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. Unschooling parents do not … do at home the kinds of things that are done at school.

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Science Teaching Junkie

AUGUST 23, 2015

Tomorrow I'm heading back to school. My husband came home and announced that he was going to do something fun for his upperclassmen in Algebra II. And Crazy Libs is available for purchase just in time for back to school! It's gonna be a great 2015 school year! I have 2 really cool things to share with you today.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Looking just at college algebra, the passing rate for Hispanic men fell below 50 percent during the last two years. Instead, the school wants students to help test and design the learning tools they use—in hopes that their feedback can improve pass rates and other metrics. But for Black men, the pass rate tumbled to 64 percent.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

When I was a younger student, I was that kid who was able to do school. Getting to middle school, where I had a counselor, Mrs. Bennett — God rest her soul — she was a Black woman who told me, “You really need to be in the advanced courses.” Some of the questions that get raised are, is there too much emphasis on algebra and calculus?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These are the students who end up hitting a wall when math courses move from easier algebra to more advanced concepts in, say, calculus, he argues. “At But he has decided not to try to convince schools and school systems to adopt his system. At some point, mimicking runs out,” says Liljedahl. This is human nature.

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