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. When America’s math performance is lagging , it could have big consequences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. This isn’t unusual: Students often get weird concepts of math, developing logical-seeming routes for answering questions, Barclay says.

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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. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. Math isn’t just the regurgitation of formulas.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

Think back to your days in middle school, specifically to what you did after you slung your backpack off at home and began to unwind. What would your answer have been if a teacher asked, “What am I doing outside of school that I want to tell other students about?”

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

The program also targets knowledge and training gaps in local schools. Radford staff often coordinate with principals to determine which general education subjects are lacking certified teachers. Currently, the program offers a math program and could soon include biology, English, and potentially physics or psychology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Sam Brooks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. Her Title I school in Riviera Beach has a growing population of English language learners. Many students also have significant deficits in reading comprehension, literacy and foundational math skills.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

After several decades of experimentation with technology in schools, we continue to face fundamental questions: What role should technology have in the classroom? What are the opportunities for technology to transform both teaching and learning? The Beauty of Misconceptions More from Woot Math.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle. Teachers with weak math backgrounds are more likely to teach math as a bundle of discrete, disconnected ideas and dwell on less critical features.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to compare progress since the pandemic. Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said as much during a briefing with reporters.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

Students who don’t know that colleges prioritize calculus find themselves at a disadvantage in college admissions, according to “ Integral Voices: Examining Math Experiences of Underrepresented Students ,” a recent report from Just Equations, a California-based policy institute focused on making math more equitable.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers in three North Carolina counties report their students, who are trying to close math learning gaps caused by COVID-related school disruptions, are making progress thanks to an innovative digital learning platform. The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2017

From mobile devices to gaming and online learning, students are ready to take charge of their learning, often outpacing their schools in their use of these digital tools for learning. More than one-third of middle school students say they have already taken an online class in math, science and English.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

million students from all 50 states, Renaissance’s midyear How Kids Are Performing report provides targeted insights to help educators accelerate spring and summer learning. The report’s overall conclusion is that student growth during the first half of the 2020–2021 school year is approaching expected levels in both reading and math.

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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. billion in the hopes of closing achievement gaps in K-12 math education. So, what is Zearn?

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Advocating for Representation in Education Identity was at the core for many of these fellows, and they sought opportunities to advocate not just for their students identities but also for their surrounding community of parents and alumni. This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Written by Beth , a middle school math teacher & interventionist from Iowa. Beth’s school has high populations of special education and ELL students. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Woot Math?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

It’s the first day of school. 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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, all middle and high school students within the district will have access to Reading Plus for the following three years. The significant expansion follows a successful pilot program and small implementation at six of the district’s middle schools.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Allie Beldin’s love of educational technology began long before teachers made the necessary move to online learning. For Beldin, a sixth grade math teacher at Stallings Island Middle School in Georgia, educational technology has been a resource throughout her career for supporting struggling students and making classes more fun.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Our third graders take state standardized tests, and our scores used to be pretty good,” explained Connie Hibbitts, Instructional Coach for all four elementary-middle schools in the county and an educator with 34 years of experience. After just a few months in, students’ hard work started paying off.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. Last July, California adopted a new K-12 math framework. Algebra has long been considered a "gateway" to higher math. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For students who have been historically marginalized, Algebra I has become a sort of gatekeeper course,” says Henry Hipps, deputy director of K-12 Education at the Gates Foundation. Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Math and metacognition took the spotlight last week at Stanford’s Center for Education Research. On July 29, the latest class at the university’s Learning, Design and Technology Program presented their thesis projects. Another popular idea focused focused on math instruction. When asked “Why metacognition?”

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Erin Haley, middle school teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif.: “YES I’ve had fully educated parents tell me that they appreciate what I do, coupled with those now infamous words, ‘I don’t know how or why you teach.’” Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: “I

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. Today, the organization is launching its first full (and free) math curriculum as a starting (and proving) point. She says out of about 70 middle school teachers in her district, close to 50 participated in the pilot.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Our Customer Advisory Board enables us to directly collaborate with the people who best understand the needs of schools and districts across the U.S. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

NEW YORK — 3P Learning, a global leader in online education for school-aged students, announces Mathletics , the company’s math program for intermediate learners, has achieved Level II certification under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Mathletics also earned the ISTE Seal this spring.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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