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Mathematics for Sustainable Development

Scientix

CC-By provided by the author The Mathematics for Sustainable Development (MaSuD) Erasmus+ project combines two educational issues: math anxiety and raising awareness on environmental issues. To address these two educational issues, we decided to create the context of learning mathematics through open-ended environment related problems.

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

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Students should be equal participants in their learning,” says Phipps. 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. All teachers should have equal access to tools that can improve their teaching.

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Using a Student-Centered Approach to Promote Computational Thinking

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Tony Lam, head of mathematics at Marymount Primary School in Hong Kong, recognized the mindset change required to create a student-centered coding experience. I now duplicate the same framework in my mathematics lessons. Learning to code also motivated her learning in mathematics and art. The CoolThink Pedagogy.

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Productive Struggle: An Opportunity for In-Depth Mathematics Learning

National Science Foundation

Struggle is a regular part of mathematics class: students struggle to get started, to carry out a process, to express misconceptions and errors, and with “uncertainty in explaining and sense-making” (Warshauer, 2015, p. Generating Mathematically Productive Struggle.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence. jumping jacks, sit-ups, and deep knee bends) to learn the concept that 10 sets of 10 equal 100. Break the class into teams and assign each an equal number of the elements up to one hundred. What was the country like a hundred years ago?

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Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

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In fact, he argues that the whole idea of academic research hinges on work being shared freely so that other scholars can build on someone else’s idea or see from another scholar’s work that they might be going down a dead-end path. So for the sciences, like physics, mathematics, computer science, they basically function online.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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Holding the Door Open for Young Latinos Cindy Noriega is a third-year mathematics and computer science teacher in the Los Angeles area. Figures from the Pew Research Center show that Latinos are still vastly underrepresented in the science, math and technology workforce. That's why I'm also their cheerleader.”