Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college major.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

They learn that math isnt just numbersits problem-solving. From Prekindergarten to Grade 12, students learn social-emotional skills through a carefully structured curriculum. Its about building understanding through firsthand experiences, not just textbooks. The IBs interdisciplinary structure plays a key role.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 23, 2025

My daughter is 16 and in 11th grade this year. Below are the 11th-grade homeschool curriculum picks we have made for her! MATH We have used Teaching Textbooks from the beginning with all of my kids and we still love it! My daughter is my artsy kid and I think she will prefer this over a math-heavy chemistry.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. The fact that AI detection tools are not foolproof (Fleckenstein et al.,

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

12th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. I attended until 7th grade, so most of my school experience is actually with an in-person school. “I By: Madison B., Why did you switch to online private school?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

The problem for many struggling math students is that often those “universal” numbers and symbols hide in surrounding contexts of unfamiliar vocabulary, settings, and narratives. In the process, math can actually become a universal thread to connect many types of content and learners. Math is joyful! Math is joyful!

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2015

All middle school students will use Discovery Education’s Math Techbook. Illinois’ Mundelein School District 75 and Discovery Education are launching a new partnership bringing Discovery Education’s new digital math textbook to all middle school students district-wide.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Effectively, any time you’d use a static PowerPoint slide or textbook image to demonstrate a concept, it’s worth checking PhET to see if there’s an interactive version. Grades : K-12. Bottom line : Instantly add meaningful lab experiences to math and science classrooms for exactly $0? What’s It Like? .

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 14 million students, announced that it has been added to Utah’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software Grant list by the state’s STEM Action Center.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Discovery Education’s Math Techbook has been approved as a core instructional resource across Oregon state. The Oregon State Board of Education has approved the Discovery Education Math Techbook for statewide use as a core instructional resource through its state adoption process.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Fennell, a current professor of education at McDaniel College, has provided his endorsement of hand2mind’s Hands-On Standards product line, which helps K-8 educators and parents teach math with manipulatives to build problem-solving skills. Hands-On Standards.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, today announced that its blended core Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in a new report published by EdReports.org. Learn more at [link].). ABOUT CARNEGIE LEARNING, INC.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The platform’s curriculum for grades PK-2 is designed according to research-based best practices for effective early literacy instruction and focuses on systematic, structured phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. About IXL Currently used by 16 million students and in 96 of the top 100 U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”

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Edsurge

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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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. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Preparing students for college and a career is the mission of every public K-12 school system, and this work begins by establishing a strong foundation for success in the early grades. We use common district assessments to track our students’ progress toward meeting state standards in ELA and math. 60” referred to the same number.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Math teachers can have students share photos of a math problem. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book. If they use a combination of multiple-choice, true/false, and short answer questions, the Google Form will grade itself providing immediate data.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). AI transforms textbooks into interactive study guides.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill.

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As a science teacher for grades 1-3, I wanted to create a completely different science lab experience for my young students. We started with a pilot for second grade students and then expanded that pilot to include first graders. All students in grades 1-3 currently use TinkRworks for science labs. It connected to our NGSS work.

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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. Under the MIZ program, there are 20 districts implementing IXL to boost achievement for students in pre-K through 8th grade.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As part of the collaboration, MCPS is expanding its use of IXL Math to personalize learning for students taking Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry courses. ” Montgomery County Public Schools, home to 211 K -12 schools and 160,000 students, initially adopted IXL Math in 2023 to support 36,000 students in grades 6-8.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2017

Once they select a subject, they’re given a fairly typical textbook-style lesson, with written explanations and vocabulary, worked example problems, and then a series of practice questions. Grades : 3-12. Pros : Provides tons of data to teachers and students, and competency-based progression is far better than grades.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Whether delivered via visually engaging textbooks or powered by the most advanced digital technology on the award-winning Savvas Realize LMS, Savvas Learning Company’s rigorous, standards-aligned resources focus on putting the student at the center of learning. It is about that aha!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past. 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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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 30, 2022

The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12. From stories of ancient cultures to in-depth explorations of civics and government, this comprehensive digital textbook takes concepts off the pages and brings lessons to life. . Math Techbook. STEM Connect.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

Summer Math Challenge. Grades 1-8. Opened early for students learning at home, the Summer Math Challenge helps students practice math skills at their grade and ability level in this self-paced program. Grades 1-12. Lexile Word Lists.

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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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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. Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL is used by nearly 40 percent of all K-12 students in Kentucky, accounting for more than 283,000 learners.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The main drawback is that this model simultaneously holds all students to the same learning objective , preventing them from getting the proper lesson unless the teacher has built thousands of lessons and allowed students to jump back or forward to different grade levels according to their levels.

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