eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

That’s why one of my favorite phrases is “I hate math.” Over the years, I’ve helped dozens of students overcome their math anxiety. 4 ways to help students learn to love math. That’s why I work so hard to help them see the creativity, the beauty, and the fun in math. Related: How our district is making math relevant.

Math

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Fifty percent of UVA-PLE’s recent partners have reported double-digit gains in math or language arts in only two years. .” UVA-PLE has partnered with more than 400 schools across 100 districts in 25 states since 2003. This press release originally appeared online.

Failure

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text. To make meaning from a passage, John told us, a person needs to be able to read 95-98% of the words.

Reading

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text. To make meaning from a passage, John told us, a person needs to be able to read 95-98% of the words.

Science

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

So a few years ago Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University, tried a new approach, known as flipped learning—a method catching on these days in college classrooms. It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure.

Failure

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

Math

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure.

Interdisciplinary

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. We ought to be doing more to ensure that at every school, you have the opportunity to not just get English and math but science and social studies and the arts and computer science and AP classes. But we have to be safe.

Failure

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose.

Failure

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.

Elementary School

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

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.” The results show plummeting scores for math and reading. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019.

Math

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.

Math

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a classroom teacher, I gamified my classroom because I needed an engaging way to deliver the online lessons I created for students during reading and math workshop. One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure.

Gamification

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

These practices have have also yielded incredible results for the schools, with boosts in enrollment and performance in both ELA and math. Charters school leaders recognize students learn better together, and they belong together in the classroom, regardless of their ability,” said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, CCSA.

Special Education

eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

In an effort to help ensure that students are prepared for fall classes, McGraw Hill is offering new customers a free two-month trial of its ALEKS MathReady program, allowing current and rising college-age students and others to refresh their math skills efficiently and effectively. month after, visit: [link].

Math

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? At the beginning of my career in Chicago, I taught 7th- and 8th-grade math in a system where students took a test and applied to get into selective high schools. My homework past.

Assignments

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. Try asking someone if they were good at math as a child. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists.

Failure

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.

Math

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

For students with anxiety, the fear of the unknown, of potential judgement, and/or of failure is so intense that the solution is often to pull the pendulum as far back in the opposite direction as possible. However, for the ease with which math and science came to him/her, English and history did not.

Failure

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

These practices have have also yielded incredible results for the schools, with boosts in enrollment and performance in both ELA and math. Charters school leaders recognize students learn better together, and they belong together in the classroom, regardless of their ability,” said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, CCSA.

Special Education

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. In middle grade math, imagine sophisticated diagnostic assessments generating a personalized learning plan that adapts daily and allows each student to drive their own progress using a variety of learning modalities.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Its curriculum covers pre-kindergarten through grade 5 for math and reading. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn expanded its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also launched a personalized tutoring product, owing to growing demand from parents and teachers. “We About SplashLearn.

Game-Based Learning

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. The emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

Failure

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

According to an article from Screencastify , “a Columbia University study showed a 12 percent increase in attendance and a 27 percent decrease in course failures when parents received weekly texts about student progress.” Something as simple as text messages has the power to be highly effective in reaching those busy parents.

Communication

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? How can schools use your findings going forward?

Failure

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A few weeks ago, while perusing Twitter for news stories, a few folks on the EdSurge team came across a Tweet by math blogger, former teacher and current Desmos Chief Academic Officer Dan Meyer. My goal as the person representing in some ways a more traditional style of instruction, less personalized, and emphasizing certain parts of math.

Questions

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images.

Teaching

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. He knew that if he made a mistake with a math problem, I wouldn’t be disappointed.

Math

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nationwide, the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting educational inequalities and led to steep academic declines in both math and reading that have not yet stabilized. As they collaboratively engage in real engineering practices and persist through failure, students strengthen their STEM and language proficiency, simultaneously. “We

Science

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.

Math

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

When my class, who didn’t see themselves as STEAM teachers, had the freedom to tinker without a fear of failure, they became far more eager (and better equipped) to teach those concepts in their own future classrooms. If you free your pre-service teachers to play, they’re apt to do the same with their students.

Teaching

Edsurge

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. Students who are struggling with the math concepts work them through using visual modeling (as well as traditional pen-and-paper).

Math

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

Failure

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s especially scary when we consider that our failures can equate to student failures. Ben Orlin, author of “Math with Bad Drawings,” once wrote “creativity is what happens when a mind encounters an obstacle. That’s a lot of pressure on teachers to not mess this up.

Blended Learning

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

These practices have have also yielded incredible results for the schools, with boosts in enrollment and performance in both ELA and math. Charters school leaders recognize students learn better together, and they belong together in the classroom, regardless of their ability,” said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, CCSA.

Disabilities

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Think More Like an Art Teacher Math teachers’ approach to teaching is effective given their subject matter, but when unleashing play in the classroom, teachers—even math teachers—may find it helpful to think of their class more as an art class than a math class.

Failure

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

Saga, a national nonprofit, provides a research-backed math curriculum with a track record of success for middle and secondary grades. The randomized controlled trials also found that Saga’s tutoring model reduced math course failure rates by 60 percent. About Saga Education.

Achievement