eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2020

A national survey of 16- to 18-year-olds shows that even among some of America’s top high school students, not only do boys favor math more than girls, but they also have more confidence in math class. to determine their views regarding math and STEM. Related content: Building and sustaining a strong math culture.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, school districts across the country have seen an influx of funding for student devices, internet access, and a variety of edtech tools. This practical change has made it easier to incorporate computer science lessons into core subjects taught across the day, like math and language arts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2021

The survey, conducted by the nonprofit Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in March , gathered responses from 1,060 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. and sixth form students in England and Wales to determine their views regarding virtual learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Ed-tech expert Kathy Schrock weighs in on mixed platform solutions for all grade levels. However, even here there were difficulties at first as students needed to be attached to the internet to use the online Google tools and many of popular Flash-based sites were simply incompatible.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Key points: Inspiring young women in STEM programs requires cultivating a culture of community Black students need more STEM career exposure Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades For more news on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In one study, even after all students were provided with a laptop computer, internet access, and headphones, low-income students’ school attendance and engagement were consistently less frequent than their higher-income peers (An, 2021). Some students lacked necessary resources. So now, we’re all back at school, but things have changed.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I beat the national average of 3-5 years for high school math and science teachers. For example, I was asked to demonstrate a model lesson during a district professional development day and represented my subject and grade level on a curriculum vertical alignment committee.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

We just won’t use the Chromebooks in math class.”. —Me Last school year, our school started a one-to-one Chromebook initiative for the sixth grade. Depending on the grade level and subject, students can’t always work out their thinking only on a computer (i.e., “I don’t think I’ll teach any differently this year.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade. In Florida’s Putnam County School District , educators are leveraging new content monitoring software to both automate the process of flagging potentially sensitive internet searches and add critical context to flagged requests. . eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2019

on how to increase student interest, understanding, and performance in math and STEM subjects. The students queried for the survey are participants in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, a national internet-based contest organized by SIAM. Related: How to get students interested in STEM.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Held annually on November 8th, National STEM Day unites communities to celebrate the importance of teaching science, technology, engineering, and math to students in grades K-12. A 4-time Olympian, 9-time Olympic Gold Medalist (14-time Olympic Medalist), and 21-time World Champion, Katie is a proud STEM advocate.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

The survey polled 825 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Unified School District, including limited classroom use of iPads and other computers, inadequate support for teachers and partial or inconsistent access to the internet. The Pearson content was used mostly for elementary math instruction; those teachers already were familiar with Pearson math textbooks at those grade levels.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

As the internet drives down the value of a teacher’s knowledge, their ability to personalize learning with resources from around the world will increase. But now that the internet is replacing paper as the go-to media we need to balance our students skill set from finding answers to asking the most interesting questions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

An elementary school teacher discussed how math can be integrated into PE class–for instance, students can measure and make calculations related to how far they jump or how fast they run, or myriad other activities. At our district, we started with installing the L system in an elementary school that serves grades 3-5.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). The over 150 games are fast-paced and interactive, and cover over 180 math topics. My favorite characteristics of Zap Zap Math include: Math topics are delivered in a module-oriented manner.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Written by Beth , a middle school math teacher & interventionist from Iowa. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Woot Math? I used Woot Math with all students in 5th-grade once a week for 25 minutes. Woot Math does that for me.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Visualize Your Equations with Paper Math. Paper’s new math literacy solution, Paper Math, gamifies math by allowing students to manipulate equations through an artful interface to help break math problems down into intuitive core concepts, making the experience immersive and 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. After one year of using enVision, Johnston County saw real growth.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. I teach sixth-grade reading to four classes of 20 students, most of whom have no internet access at home.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Over the 2015-16 school year, students who worked with Achieve3000’s literacy solutions, KidBizPro ® for grades 2-5, TeenBizPro ® for grades 6-8, and EmpowerPro ® for grades 9-12 ( Pro ) saw significant literacy gains. fourth-grade science and social studies. seventh-grade science. eighth-grade social studies.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the case of iMentor, mentors and mentees devote an entire year to building a relationship before mentees make big decisions about their lives in 12th grade. After all, their findings highlighted the outsized role of social capital amidst the rise of the internet. Fifth, AI tools should wrap around relationships, not replace them.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Available on Discovery Education’s Earth Day website, this collection of K-12 content is organized by grade band and has been curated by Discovery Education’s team of curriculum experts. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Based on these projections, the estimated impact on learning was significant – especially in math. Peters, Rambo-Hernandez, Makel, Mathews, and Plucker recently examined classroom academic skills for a typical fifth grade class and found that a teacher could see up to seven grade levels of skills represented in one classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

Currently, we have one immersion class—taught full-time in Spanish, with the goal of “immersing” or teaching Spanish to speakers of other languages, like English—in each of our Kindergarten through third grade classrooms. Using the internet, students are able to research, organize, and share information with the teacher and each other.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The state superintendent, who has set a goal of getting a one-to-one computer to student ratio in grades 3-12 in all Mountain State schools by 2020, said he wants pupils to have devices with all their classes on them to use at school and take home. He also wants devices available for younger kids, but not to take them home.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2020

Many students simply don't have access to a stable internet connection or the proper devices. On the flip side, some students have a stable internet connection, proper devices and dedicated “school time” set by their parents or guardians. Kids need to keep their minds active through practicing the fundamentals of reading and math.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math. Students in those courses and grade levels—at all schools—were given access to the technology. The initiative involved three projects: wireless networks at schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NEW YORK — Tutor.com , one of the world’s largest and most innovative online tutoring organizations, announced today that it has been selected by the South Orange & Maplewood School District to provide round-the-clock online tutoring for students in grades 3 through 12 at no cost to them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Across the country, there’s a growing movement to provide computer science education to every student, in every school, at every grade level,” said Learning.com CEO Keith Oelrich. Project10Million , from T-Mobile, is an initiative aimed at delivering internet connectivity to millions of underserved student households at no cost.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

We’ll figure out the math, we’ll figure out Hamlet and the Odyssey. We’ll figure out the math, we’ll figure out Hamlet and the Odyssey.” embed] EdSurge: Should schools be prioritizing home internet access for remote learning right now? Listen to the audio below or check out the full video on YouTube.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Putting Tech in Students' Hands We, in essence, provided devices and internet access to every student in our district. After COVID-19, the district's one-to-one program expanded to take-home for all grades. We, in essence, provided devices and internet access to every student in our district. It was a huge team push.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Today, the organization is launching its first full (and free) math curriculum as a starting (and proving) point. Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers Common Core standards for grades 6-8 math. Corrine Williams. So far, she thinks the full curriculum is following suit. Larry Singer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Math teachers: This is for you. Here are some great suggestions from efriend and math afficionado, Matt Kim: Before I was ever a high school math teacher, I was always a hardcore technophile. It really is an exciting time for technology in education and the tools available to us to use today in our math classes is no exception.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2019

Learning has no temporal or geographic borders and is available wherever students and teachers find an Internet connection. This used to mean limiting access to the Internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) to discourage students from using an infinite and fascinating resource. 1st Grade.

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