eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Littera, which was founded expressly to address inequities in public education, launched the research project with the aim of improving the implementation of math tutoring programs that support students who are Black, Latino, or experiencing poverty. We believe every child deserves the care and attention of a great tutor.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

1st Grade A critical skill for first graders is to not only understand the idea of a “digital citizen” but why it’s important to be one. How does paying attention to their surroundings at the mall equate to paying attention on websites? This can tie into math class discussions on graphs and data.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. Oh, do you want to try? I was just a kid.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Teachers find AI tools that grade assignments, create lesson plans, and offer personalized student support. Some AI assistants grade papers, while others spot students who might need extra help. When papers need grading or test scores need tracking, AI steps in. Will AI replace teachers?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

As students rotate to this station, they receive focused attention and resources that address their unique learning challenges or advanced needs, ensuring that each student is supported where they are in their learning journey. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Studies show that students’ executive functioning, the part of the brain that governs planning, organizing, and paying attention, is not fully formed until high school or later. A planner can also help parents track their children’s tasks, especially if they have multiple children in different grades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One example is “tracking” or “grouping” students by their perceived ability, a good-intentioned practice that can result in underestimating student potential and providing fewer opportunities to experience grade-level, challenging mathematics. It takes content knowledge to evaluate and select effective curriculum materials.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

National program uses famed sports video game to ignite students’ interest in math and science. EA SPORTS Madden NFL: Football by the Numbers, a comprehensive educational initiative, is an initiative designed to engage students in grades 5-9 with science and math content through an interactive digital learning game.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2024

This type of tutoring can especially help in the early grades for literacy and in middle school math. It offers the attention and nurturing that students–especially disadvantaged youth who don’t often have access to high-impact tutoring–fundamentally need to succeed.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

However, a combined total of 69 percent said their primary motive was to prepare for upcoming courses, develop better study skills or improve their grades. Math and foreign languages lead the pack, though there’s a notable discrepancy between what tutors see as important and what students express interest in.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here in Cicero School District 99, students are getting an extra 30 minutes of reading or math instruction every day, which adds up to around three additional weeks of school. The year before the pandemic, 22% of students in the district met or exceeded Illinois’ English language arts standards, while 16% cleared that bar in math.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2024

Classroom decorations I’m an elementary teacher who has taught grades from kindergarten through 5th grade. My room decor has changed with the grades I teach. When I changed grades last time, I went from 1st to 5th grade. I have also used this to create numerous charts, desk tags, and bulletin board designs as well.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2021

According to the most recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP), two-thirds of K-12 students are not writing at levels expected for their grade level. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, writing had not received the same attention as math or reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? Modern educational tools make it possible to add a practical edge to math lessons, as students can observe math structures at play in the real world and see how people apply these formulas to solve common challenges. But where to start?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As a science teacher for grades 1-3, I wanted to create a completely different science lab experience for my young students. We started with a pilot for second grade students and then expanded that pilot to include first graders. All students in grades 1-3 currently use TinkRworks for science labs. It connected to our NGSS work.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Math teachers showed how parabolas were effectively used for space exploration. This may seem far off from a 5th-grade classroom, but people who start early continue these habits throughout their lives. For example, my 5 th grade math teacher, Mrs. Perkins, identified my affinity for the subject and fostered it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. ” This press release originally appeared online.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. enVision ® Mathematics Common Core © 2021 Grades 6-8. enVision ® A|G|A Common Core © 2018.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

More than 500 schools will use IXL to supplement math instruction and approximately 20,000 students can access one-on-one virtual tutoring opportunities through Wyzant , the nation’s largest tutoring network. Wyzant will virtually connect M-DCPS students to math tutors for individualized learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. When the Santa Fe Public School system had to select a new math curriculum last year, they went in search of something that met their pedagogical needs and best served their unique school population.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

NAEP state-level findings of drops in math and reading scores were followed by the release of the Education Recovery Scorecard , which leveraged NAEP data to offer the first comparable view of district level learning loss during the pandemic. State and district-level learning loss data is critical.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the early elementary grades, the assumption that PBL is simply too much for young learners can be a frequent roadblock. Some ideas of what PBL might look like in a first grade classroom include: A group of strong readers begin reading nonfiction books about a topic of their choosing and write their own story about the topic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. “WriQ, has been designed with those needs in mind.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 2, 2025

Finding educational websites that are appropriate for the age of the students and are interesting enough to hold their attention can be like finding a needle in a haystack. GoNoodle : My own child has been a fan of GN since he was in grade school. SO many ideas, of which most can be used for multiple grade levels and subject areas.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. Diffit provides leveled resources as well. Nearly all generative AI tools offer a summary function. Documentor.cc

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). AI helps with automatic grading and assessment creation.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Students are lined up outside your door, not yet comfortable enough to talk to each other as they wait to be let into math class. But more importantly, every single one of them is listening attentively for their next instructions—right in the middle of math class. This step requires students to use a specific math concept.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With a focus on students in grades 7-12, I’ve made it a mission to help struggling readers become proficient. They don’t want to interact with anyone, and by the time they reach 7 th grade, they definitely don’t want to be reminded of their reading struggles. The consequences of early literacy struggles have been well documented.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. .

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

Discover Venture Valley empowers students in grades 6-12 to build financial and business basics through a suite of standards-aligned resources and by taking on the role of a budding entrepreneur in the new Venture Valley video game. link] .

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

However, in 2019, nearly half our students scored below proficiency in math and reading as measured by state test scores. We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These are perfect for grabbing attention as a hook into a unit of study, a brain break, or even a rainy-day recess! For example, I have shared with my 2nd grade students the video entitled “Bang the Drums”, which is a story about the passion of making music. and What might happen if…?

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. First Avenue Students can access Khanmigo to get hints for solving challenging math problems or explain concepts they find confusing across all subjects.

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