ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2023
About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” The students have voted with their feet, Van Valkenburgh adds.
Educators Technology
AUGUST 30, 2022
Generation Genius is an educational website that offers standards-based K-8 video lessons covering various science and math topics. Generation Genius also offers a monthly homekit that contains supplies to help kids (under the supervision of adults) carry out hands-on science experiments at home.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JULY 8, 2019
Math used to be a tedious memorization of facts and formulas. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math. Interactivate.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Henderson says this just adds to the evidence she’s seen from other assessments, including NAEP and AP performance, which she claims make a case that Utah’s math instruction is working. But that hid a reality: that math capabilities have fallen since the last time the PISA test was administered. as in 2018, math scores slumped.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. There are math requirements for those majors.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s like math anxiety — they think they can’t do it,” the professor says of some students. Just exposing people to the actual curriculum can overcome fears.”
Ask a Tech Teacher
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. 3 IXL Learning. 4 DreamBox Learning.
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