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APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group. The problem?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. I mean, its fun!

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MARCH 4, 2024

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. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying.

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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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DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. I thought so. Probably not.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. And that's how people learn math.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The integration of digital tools such as interactive software, cloud-based platforms, and adaptive learning systems has shifted traditional educational models towards more personalized, flexible, and engaging learning experiences. One of the primary benefits of education technology in K-12 is its ability to cater to diverse learning styles.

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APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. That has consequences.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Dan Meyer is chief academic officer at Desmos, and was previously a high school math teacher. He frequently shares his musings and insights on math education on his popular blog.

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MARCH 27, 2024

After earning this degree and passing certification tests required by some states, candidates are qualified to teach. The ninth-graders in my classes and the preservice teachers I teach have one thing in common: math has not always come easy for them, and for many in both groups, learning math can be overwhelming.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

If you’re an educator, the weeks leading up to state testing are likely some of the most stressful and demanding days in your year. You’re focused not only on test preparation, but also on each student’s specific needs. 10 Tips for Testing Success. Ace the Test with Study Island. Assessment For Learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

But as educators know well, access to technology alone doesn’t create educational equity –a theory proven by recent testing data: Across the country, nearly one-third of students returned to school in the fall below grade level in reading and math despite the widespread use of education technology by districts in the spring.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New national test scores, released Monday, reveal that the disruption may have been even more severe than already anticipated. Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.”

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MAY 9, 2025

Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. Educational leaders may not reach out to underserved schools or underrepresented communities, so students dont know about them. Radford staff often coordinate with principals to determine which general education subjects are lacking certified teachers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Carnegie Learning’s math solution helped them achieve even higher. Our SBAC data was the best we’ve had for math in 25 years! And we did not teach to the test. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.” We just used Carnegie Learning Math.” Carnegie Learning math moved everybody up.”

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JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2018

And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. Student schedules feature long blocks of project time and electives, with literacy and math work peppered in throughout the week. Three class schedules from Community Middle.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Has the math brand become toxic? His critique, in a nutshell: math instruction has become too fixated on computation—solving for x , for example—and removed from real-world applications and data. Conrad Wolfram EdSurge: How did your interest in math begin? And, were you always good at math as a child?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. The quiz seems deceptively easy: The past decade has seen literally hundreds of technologies and ideas emerge, many aimed at engaging or involving K-12 students and supporting student learning. Betsy Corcoran is co-founder of EdSurge.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

In a district that has been plagued with low test scores and student performance, several D.C. schools have seen student proficiency levels jump in math and reading in recent years. of Educational Technology and Library Programs. They have a good reason to visit.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The beauty of playful assessment, she says, is that it can be done without interrupting the rhythm of learning, thereby alleviating student anxiety around testing. Teachers are evaluated on those standardized tests. These students rarely take multiple choice tests. They believe it could eventually replace traditional math exams.

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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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JULY 31, 2019

These days the leaders of the College Board, which runs the SAT, have been making a surprising argument—that colleges and parents should stop taking the scores of its signature test so seriously. In this new era, the College Board is testing a controversial new metric that has been labeled as an “ adversity score.”

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. And the Americans?

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JULY 16, 2019

Here in education, Khan doesn’t need much introduction. On YouTube, Khan Academy’s collection of videos (filmed at first in his bedroom closet) started off covering math but have since branched into science, history and other subjects. Work on this, get mastery, do it on a unit test, et cetera. Even with our SAT prep.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. How does Khanmigo work?

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. Author and educator Katie White, who’s something of an expert on the creative process, may have a practical solution. We would never ask in a P.E. Part of that is justifying a grade.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Achieve3000 delivers a comprehensive suite of digital platforms that significantly accelerate and deepen learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, and ELA. Using personalized and differentiated instructional solutions, Achieve3000 enables educators to help all students achieve accelerated growth. and four U.S. territories.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

While summer school often conjures up images of reluctant students sitting in rows, watching the clock or gazing out the window, the scene inside Santa Fe’s Math Adventure Camp could not be more different. The “Fate and Fortune” game used by Santa Fe embeds ten key standards that correlate most closely with Algebra I success.

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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. And this program was it.”

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today announced the upcoming release of How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on Reading and Mathematics Achievement , a report detailing the learning effects associated with COVID-19 school closures. Math has been a different story.

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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. After one year of using enVision, Johnston County saw real growth.

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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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