Figuring out a word problem. Calculating area and perimeter. Finding the measure of an unknown angle. All these tasks, and more, draw on an essential foundation of math knowledge, said Brian Bushart, ...
One of the most hotly contested teaching practices concerns a single minute of math class. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Should teachers pull out their stopwatches and administer one-page ...
Dyscalculia is a severe and persistent learning disability in math that affects about 5 to 8 percent of school-age children. Due to its impact on students’ ability to learn and retain basic math facts ...
Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, and I would like to thank my daughter for allowing me to write about her dyslexia in order to help others. According to the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity ...
Anything new takes a little time to get used to, and that's the case for educators who've been using other approaches and were themselves taught math differently, writes Brittany duPont.(Berezko / ...
It turns out there actually is a reason we learn math at school. At some point during your time at school, you will have ...
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carnegie Learning is proud to announce that the Kingsville campus of Jubilee Academies—a renowned charter-school system serving many communities in South Texas—has seen ...
Data released by the Oregon Department of Education in the fall showed that student proficiency rates for mathematics dropped to about 30%. At the same time, investments championed by Gov. Tina Kotek ...