eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

This story about math recovery was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched herself teach class. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In this post, Sarah Dunn , a high school math teacher, shares the strategy she uses to get students thinking critically about mathematical mistakes. In a previous post , I wrote about how to design kinesthetic math stations. In some cases, I just make up the math. The truth is that mistakes are inevitable.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When states that normally required a high school exit exam waived that requirement, graduation rates went up. Balfanz worries about this year’s senior class, who spent much of middle school learning remotely, and then “crashed” on a key national math test in eighth grade. percentage points higher than they otherwise would have been.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2015

The affluent Highland Park-based Township High School District 113 near Chicago has all the modern technology, bandwidth, computers and technicians it needs to administer new online state exams this spring — but it opted to go with old-fashioned paper and pencil tests instead. Next page: Illinois districts weigh in on their decisions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Math is a fundamental part of K-12 education, but students often face significant challenges in mastering increasingly challenging math concepts. Many students suffer from math anxiety, which can lead to a lack of confidence and motivation.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One district looks at the changes a new blended math program for K-5 has brought. For starters, it has demanded more focus, coherence, and rigor in the ways we teach math. Math is not a “quiet” or a solo endeavor. As an instructional coach, I’m often asked about the role of technology in math education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

During April’s Math Awareness Month, math education is in the spotlight. There’s no shortage of advocacy for STEM education, and math remains one of the most in-demand skills in college and the workforce. In an effort to keep mathematics instruction fun and engaging, here are six math facts from Cengage Learning.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Because studying for exams can feel overwhelming. xx The Ask a Tech Teacher team shares a variety of digital tools that improve and streamline exam prep: How Digital Study Techniques Improve Exam Preparation Studying for exams can often feel like this huge, monumental task that causes not only stress but existential anxiety.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam will be taken entirely online next year. Many other states already have fully online tests—and in response to the pandemic, graduate entrance and career certification exams have shifted online as well.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math classes without too much trouble, earning Cs. The teachers just expect her to understand the math right away, she says.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2015

California officials make push for universities to accept high school coding as a math class. 2 to count high school computer science classes as math classes instead of electives — a move supporters say could help to diversify the tech industry. Backed by an all-star cast of Silicon Valley executives and nonprofit leaders, Lt.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

That’s stress and anxiety over math. Even before worries mounted over “ learning loss ” and the ongoing youth mental health crisis , researchers observed math anxiety in children as young as 6. We need to think a lot about how we are preparing students to have a positive math attitude.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Some are bringing back a classic approach that was once common in medieval universities: the oral exam. Will the ideas catch on?

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Edsurge

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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Resourceaholic

APRIL 26, 2025

This is where I share some of the latest news, ideas and resources for maths teachers. As exam season is fast approaching, there's a revision theme in today's post!1. Welcome to my 189th gems post. MathsPad It's always great to see new resources on my favourite website MathsPad.

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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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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. IXL’s TEKS alignment has been independently reviewed by Learning List.

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Edsurge

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. If you ask seventh and eighth graders what their hardest subject is, they’ll hands down tell you it’s math. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2024

It’s also a door opener for traditionally underrepresented students often overlooked for higher-level math courses because those placement decisions don’t include something like a universally administered indicator of readiness at the start.”

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this partnership, all 33 schools in the district will use IXL to supplement math, English language arts, science and social studies instruction. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico. IXL’s personalized learning platform.

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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! We just used Carnegie Learning Math.” Our 6th graders, 74% of them passed the state exam. Carnegie Learning math moved everybody up.” And we did not teach to the test.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The verbal exam is the world’s first fully automated speaking assessment and covers nine languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese and Tagalog. Educational institutions use WebCAPE , Emmersion’s adaptive placement exam, to measure learners’ reading, grammar and listening skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultivating an early interest in STEM There is a stigma surrounding math and science that typically begins in elementary and middle schools, perpetuating the idea that math and science is ‘scary,’ too hard or challenging, or a topic meant for boys. Hyper-focused on standardized testing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Well, according to state science exams, my students consistently score higher than other science classes in my district. As the children buy and sell items I donate, they learn math skills along with life lessons. Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? Is it working?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This group included a record number of female and minority students , but girls still only accounted for 28 percent of students taking AP computer science exams, while underrepresented minorities accounted for 21 percent. Often, by the time students hit middle school, they have already decided whether they are “good” at science and math.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

states actually count computer science as a math or science credit rather than an elective, and 29 states lack computer science teacher certification programs. The computer science Advanced Placement exam represents only 1.1 The computer science Advanced Placement exam represents only 1.1 The report found that just half of U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

— IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced that the Pennsylvania Evidence Resource Center (ERC) has added IXL Math and IXL English Language Arts (ELA) to its list of evidence-based resources. The study investigated hundreds of public schools in Pennsylvania that used IXL Math or IXL ELA.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent of students reported having a test, quiz, or exam within their first week of school. percent) expect math to be their hardest subject, followed by English (14.7 With math being the perpetually most searched subject on Brainly, it’s clear that students are preparing for a tough road ahead. percent) and science (13.0

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The assessment, which has been administered every three years since 2000, measures math, science and reading literacy of 15-year-olds in 73 education systems around the globe. The 2015 study showed that the country’s 15-year-olds have largely stagnated in subjects like science and reading literacy, while math scores have fallen.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

According to the report, on the NWEA MAP assessment, given 2-3 times per year, 36,000 students from five districts showed an average growth of 130 percent in reading and 122 percent in math, compared to national MAP growth targets. Next page: Amazing growth from three districts).

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