eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The popular game-based learning program SplashLearn, announced the 7th edition of its massively popular SpringBoard Math Challenge today. The math competition is a calendar marked event and is highly anticipated by teachers across the US and Canada. The math content covers more than 570 skills through 2,376 activities and games.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

While the emphasis on computer science curriculum is often placed on middle and high schools, the need for elementary students to acquire the skills necessary for success in a technology-driven world is becoming increasingly crucial. To learn more about CodeHS Elementary, visit codehs.com/elementary.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2022

San Francisco, CA, 22 June 2022: SplashLearn, the game-based learning program used by millions of students, announced the winners of its massively popular annual competition – the SpringBoard Math Challenge. Over the duration of this 10-week math challenge, SpringBoard saw participation from over 400,000 students from 20,000+ classes!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

San Francisco, CA, 23 nd February 2022 : The popular game-based learning program SplashLearn, today announced the 8 th edition of its massively popular SpringBoard Math Challenge. The math competition is a calendar marked event and is highly anticipated by teachers across the US and Canada. About SplashLearn.

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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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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

MENLO PARK, CA [August 24, 2017] — Open Up Resources, the nonprofit provider of openly licensed curriculum for K–12 schools, has released its first openly licensed core program, the Illustrative Mathematics 6–8 Math curriculum. schools, the curriculum is now available for free to school districts.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Key points: Interactivity and engaging resources can make science more approachable Elementary school teachers need easy-to-use science tools that will grab students’ attention During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2022

One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has organized the basics on how to teach Venn Diagrams to elementary-age students: What is a Venn Diagram. How to make it clear to elementary students (get crafty). How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students. How to make it digitally. How to use it to design games .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. The solution according to some students, is to instill the cerebral skills that support math prior to kindergarten. Math Games in the Classroom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Stanford Pre-Collegiate University-Level Online Immersive, a unit of Stanford Online High School, has launched Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra, an online course based on recently developed curriculum for first-year Stanford students.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Reimagining Curriculum to Foster Engagement and Identity Over the years, fellows have noted how hard it has become to not only create engaging curriculum for students but also find ways to foster community and identity development in the classroom. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2018

Low-income minority kindergartners learn math better when taught in small groups, according to a new report from University of Michigan (U-M) researchers. This type of instructional approach not only has a positive impact on achievement, but can help bridge the gap with higher-income peers, the researchers say in a report.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2015

Program is intended to help product stronger math coaches for elementary grades. A new graduate program designed to prepare math coaches for elementary schools and help raise student math skills is being launched at the University of Maine at Farmington.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

Tynker’s new curriculum now available for rollout by K-12 science, math, and computer science teachers Across North America. The new 2016 curriculum adds 3 new Javascript courses, 12 STEM programming courses, and a course on drone programming in partnership with Parrot, one of the world’s leading civil drone companies. “To

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Here’s along list of websites that focus on math automaticity for the K-5 classroom. K Math Skills. Math Videos (not practice, but fun to watch). First Grade math skills. Math Flashcards. Math Flashcards. Math Practice Test. Mental Math. More Quick Math. Quick Math.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2022

With recent research showcasing the growing number of STEM-related jobs that will be available to our graduates in Indiana in the coming years, teaching computer science skills has become as important as teaching students how to read or do math. We were on a journey together that would be a continuous learning process.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. This allowed us to offer a week of access to the tech lab to two classes at a time.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In this new collaboration, which harnesses students’ interest in professional basketball to help teach important mathematics concepts, interactive math problems derived from NBA and WNBA game footage and statistics such as points, rebounds, assists and more, have been integrated into Discovery Education’s Math Techbook™.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s a look at each winner: Winner: John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School Nominated by: Follett John Arthur was the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for 2021 National Teacher of the Year. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers at the University of Missouri collaborated to develop an evidence-based, online professional development curriculum. Instead of just teaching students math or science, tell them you will be monitoring how well they interact with one another.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

I lead a small network of schools, and many of our current fourth graders remain dependent on adults’ opinions and find it hard to move from one problem to the next without reassurance. Our fifth graders can solve a basic math problem but often struggle to explain how to answer a word problem. dissertations for decades.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Their assignment: Design a cart to carry today’s tools for STEM learning — the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math — in Hampton Township’s three elementary schools. “We It was a very difficult decision,” Jackie Removcik, curriculum director, told the teams. Every group had strengths.”.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Basketball-themed math sweepstakes for New England schools features Celtics’ Tyler Zeller and Lucky the Leprechaun. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and the Boston Celtics have launched the second online math challenge for New England schools, SCORE with Go Math! SCORE with Go Math!

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

She holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Virginia, where she continues as an instructor in the School of Education and Human Development. By weaving technology and art into my lessons across the curriculum, I am tapping into more modalities of learners and gaining more interest.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For much of my teaching career, I taught eighth grade math students who needed extra support. Most of the students already hated math and believed that they were bad at it and would never improve. They had received poor grades in the past, found math to be boring, and expected much of the same from us. How could I blame them?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM careers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Choosing a new curriculum for New Mexico public school districts is no small task. 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

JULY 14, 2021

PORTLAND, July 13, 2021 – Blackbird, bridging the gap in Computer Science curriculum, today announced the availability of their K-12 Computer Science Pathway, designed to help school districts prepare students with the computer programming skills necessary to enter the workforce – or continue their education at the university level.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2017

School has always been a place for learning math, science, history, and art, but now it’s also becoming the place for students to learn other skills that are crucial to their future success and happiness, no matter where they end up. I am the principal of Chattahoochee Elementary School in Cumming, GA.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2024

The report leverages three years of longitudinal data and is the first of its kind to look at impacts on younger learners who were not yet in formal schooling at the start of the pandemic. Students from schools in lower-income or minoritized communities demonstrate continued disparities in academic growth relative to pre-pandemic trends. “We

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