eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2022

Even the best math teachers have had students who ace the chapter tests just to go on and struggle with that same content on the final exam—or students who have a hard time grasping more advanced concepts because they’ve forgotten the foundational learning that came before. Long-term math retention can be elusive.

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Math Exams Assignments High School 245

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2025

Still, AI adoption and use remains high, with 70 percent of surveyed students reported that they use AI at least occasionally for their assignments. In addition to feeling they are shortcutting learning, 50 percent of students report not knowing how to get the most benefit from AI in their studies.

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Education Critical Thinking Ethics Students 276

eSchool News

JULY 18, 2022

Prior to the COVID pandemic, technology integration in my high school math classroom was mainly used in two ways: discovery-based activities and homework assignments. There are two separate categories of technology when referring to teaching math.

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Math Curriculum Hybrid Learning Feedback 271

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, CA , May 26, 2021: SplashLearn, the game-based learning program used by millions of students, announced winners of its massively popular annual competition – the SpringBoard Math Challenge. SpringBoard was a fun way to revise, review and practice math concepts! said Ann Salway, teacher of the winning class.

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Math Game-Based Learning Participation Motivation 246

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” I disagree, especially when it comes to assignments designed to provide students with opportunities to review concepts and practice specific skills. Second, asking students to do something meaningful with their work creates accountability and can motivate them to complete assignments. Each student completes the assignment.

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Teachers Motivation Assignments Students 544

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. Some students don’t understand how important assignments are, Beckett says.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 200

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

Either assign students a particular slide (by writing their names at the bottom of each slide) or allow students to select the slide they want to work on. Teachers can strategically assign slides to subtly differentiate learning or give students a degree of agency by allowing them to choose their slides. Label each slide with a topic.

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Students Math Writing Discussions 546

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Math As Humanities?

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Math Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 194

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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Achievement Math Reading Education 256

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

BALTIMORE, Maryland — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, has unveiled the findings of a Johns Hopkins University study that affirms IXL Math’s effectiveness in boosting student achievement. The goal of the study was to determine IXL Math’s efficacy on students in grades 3-5.

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Math Achievement English Evaluation 258

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

In my last blog post, Using the Station Rotation Model in Math , I wrote about the benefits of shifting from a whole group, teacher-led lesson design to small-group differentiated instructional sessions. Math is no different! When coaching teachers, I encourage them to consider a math journal at that offline station.

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Math Metacognitive Skills Writing Activities 198

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Math is a linear subject, with each concept building on the one before. Math teachers are also responsible for covering a large number of standards in a school year. Most math curricula are designed for a whole group teacher-led lesson where the teacher is expected to cover a new concept or process every day.

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Math Attention Beliefs Knowledge 195

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

So, where does this come into play for me as a math teacher? For as long as I can remember, I have loved everything about math—especially teaching young people and seeing the lightbulb come on in their eyes. But, sadly, after 20 years teaching math to middle and high schoolers, I have experienced the pain of watching students struggle.

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Math Coaching Testing Assignments 216

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Key points: School districts turn to AI to improve personalized education for students With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts 5 practical ways to integrate AI into high school science For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Simply put, AI can do a lot–it can personalize learning, (..)

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 196

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Barriers to Effective Transfer and Application of Learning Assigning the same task to all students without offering any choices can significantly hinder the effective transfer and application of learning. Can you suggest creative assignments for grade students to express their learning about ?

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History Art Physical Education Essay 382

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

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Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Complex Problem Solving: Tasks that involve higher-order thinking and problem-solving, such as math word problems, scientific experiments, or coding projects, often require different amounts of time for students to analyze, understand, and solve. Below is a list of academic tasks that benefit from variable time on task.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In recent years, the focus in math education has shifted from the traditional priority of answering the problem to one of understanding and articulating the process. And high school math teacher Krystina Wood might have discovered the secret sauce to do just that. Math is moving away from “kill and drill.”

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Feedback Math Teachers Students 196

eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

Set aside dedicated study time, designate a quiet space, and make a visual schedule for completing assignments. If your kid likes dinosaurs, you might make a math worksheet where they count and add little plastic dinosaurs. At the start of homework time, review the plan with your child and cross off items as they are finished.

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Assignments Students Math Motivation 293

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

I would recommend listening to podcast episodes before assigning them to make sure they’re age-appropriate.) Another point of entry for students is learning about the experiences of their peers, so when I taught eighth grade, I always assigned The Outsiders. This novel by S.

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Reading Assignments English Math 327

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

Every few years, new research comes out arguing the merits or pitfalls of assigning homework. Generally, I think that any teacher could make the case for or against assigning homework, depending on the circumstance. I assign homework every night in my class, except for the weekends; that time is for family. But why change?

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Assignments Failure Math Motivation 266

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

Their approach contrasts with classic reading comprehension questions, which students typically respond to after completing a reading assignment. Instead, this strategy presents students with an open-ended, debatable, or controversial statement to consider before they begin the reading.

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Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Math Problem Solving: Students make claims about solutions to math problems, provide evidence by showing their work, and ask questions about different problem-solving strategies.

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Questions Metacognitive Skills Ethics Math 415

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. In math , students can move beyond computation to analyze real-world datasets.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 278

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Teachers find AI tools that grade assignments, create lesson plans, and offer personalized student support. When a student struggles with math anxiety or needs encouragement after a tough day, they need more than algorithmic responses–they need human connection. Will AI replace teachers?

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Teaching Ethics Education Teaching Methods 330

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

So, the teacher will use data to assign each student one or two “must-do” learning activities. Once teachers have used data to identify specific areas of need, they can assign each student one or two “must-do” stations. For example, a teacher might design a station rotation with six stations.

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

Elementary teachers, who are teaching all subjects, may combine reading, math and vocabulary activities on a single board. While others prefer to assign points to each box based on how challenging that activity is in relation to the other options. how they will engage with the information (learning modality).

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Blended Learning Activities Assignments Math 419

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Assignments that engage students in creative practices motivate hard-to reach students and provide an opportunity for all students to be successful. Creativity is an essential skill for all students to have. Creative projects help students connect new information to prior knowledge through critical thinking and problem solving.

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Technology Critical Thinking Assignments Motivation 319

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 111

Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

JUNE 1, 2025

Differentiated Skill Pages for Math and Literacy Looking for a simple, effective way to keep learning engaging throughout the school year? The Monthly Skill Pages Bundle was created with busy teachers in mind, offering differentiated skill pages for K-2: Seasonal math and literacy.

Math 52

Math Skills Classroom Management Assignments 52

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s say the objective of a learning cycle is to help students to craft a strong argument, compare and contrast a plant and an animal cell, or use the formula for volume to solve real-world math problems. Example: Craft a Strong Argument.

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Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 521

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

In response, I’ve adapted my teaching approach to make assignments more interactive. These days, I’m assigning far less homework and have shifted away from busywork toward more purposeful and enriching activities. These included deeper integration of ST Math , which has been a game-changer.

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Education Schools Math Science 313

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. One student may be an incredible public speaker but may wrestle with written assignments. But we havent gone far enough.

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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 296

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Visualize Your Equations with Paper Math. Paper’s new math literacy solution, Paper Math, gamifies math by allowing students to manipulate equations through an artful interface to help break math problems down into intuitive core concepts, making the experience immersive and fun.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 257

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate. Teachers can guide students in designing their own models related to class lessons, from creating geometric shapes in math to building replicas of simple molecules in chemistry.

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Middle School Middle School STEM Interdisciplinary 327

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

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Learning Spaces Student Engagement Learning Students 545