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Teach Critical Thinking

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There’s a reason why the brain uses 25% of the calories you eat: Thinking is hard work. Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems. And that's how people learn math.

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How to Teach Critical Thinking

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There’s a reason why the brain uses 25% of the calories you eat: Thinking is hard work. Subjects like math and science — the ones only “smart” kids do well in — demand that you find patterns, unravel clues, connect one dot to another, and scaffold knowledge learned in prior lessons.

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The Impact of Game-Based Learning Solutions on Critical Thinking

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Learning and the education sector have seen significant changes over time. You cannot possibly learn everything with chalk and talk in the modern world. High rates of development and improvement have been seen in both teaching and learning when gaming has been included in the classroom.

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What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

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Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. It's a time when we learn to communicate. I mean thinking about what we say and better understanding how it's going to be heard by others. But it has had its downside, I think.

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Why Are Americans’ Math Skills Slipping?

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In an analysis of the loss of lifetime income from missed learning based on the PISA results, which Henderson pointed to when asked about her enthusiasm, Utah saw less of a hit than every other state. But that hid a reality: that math capabilities have fallen since the last time the PISA test was administered. Battling Uphill The U.S.

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

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But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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