Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Content areas, such as math and science, and other areas like memory, executive function, and social-emotional development are being informed by research. By creating an emotionally safe and supportive learning environment, teachers help students build resilience, motivation, and a growth mindset.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Several empirical studies have confirmed that students in gamified learning environments achieve higher levels of motivation and cognitive engagement compared to those in traditional classroom settings” (Dehghanzadeh et al., For example, before a math test, I create a Quizizz game with problems covering the key concepts.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The result was a large achievement gap in math. “We Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise.

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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.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Some states have eligibility requirements, such as passing a standardized test. But by being able to take students who are motivated and put them in these dual-enrollment classes, you get a greater percentage of those who are going to recognize theyve got the ability and [will] go to college, she adds.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. There was a lot of fear around math and a lot of kids’ mindsets shifted to ‘I’m not good at math,’” explains Perez.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. The new data come from tests taken in early 2024 by nearly half a million students across thousands of U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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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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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

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. I was the only teacher responsible for the math education of 180 students who were all trying to get into the best high school possible. My homework past.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Preparation for an Assessment: To prepare for upcoming tests or assessments, must-do stations provide practice and support in areas where data shows students struggle. In contrast, may-do stations offer practice in areas where students feel they can benefit from additional practice and review.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Recent national test scores found that our country’s eighth graders are still a full school year behind pre-COVID levels in their reading and math achievements. This is tough news to swallow, but I’m choosing to view this as motivation. Bring data to life and prioritize planning. Not quarterly, not yearly.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2016

As a teacher, I love when my students ask questions, but the one that used to break my heart was, “Will this be on the test?”. All that I design and teach is built upon a cross-curricular base to infuse the learning experience with critical thinking—and all the motivation and personal engagement that it demands and affords.

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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.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2025

Research shows that integrating probeware in STEM instruction boosts student motivation, particularly in subjects that are often perceived as difficult or abstract. In Volusia County, Florida, Volusia County School students navigate wetlands, test water quality, and track environmental shifts using Vernier technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines. The pair credit this idea to Linda B.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Take math, for example. There are some things that technology excels at, like collecting data, and other things that teachers excel at, like teaching and motivating students. As students see their proficiency improving in each skill, their confidence grows and they become motivated by their results. Is the AI unbiased?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. If a math teacher gives you a set of problems to solve, why not leverage Khanmigo to help you solve them? AI won’t motivate a student to learn.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

Kaplan Test Prep is launching a free, live PSAT preparation program beginning October 1, with lessons that cover every section of the exam. Among the eight lessons are two Advanced lessons (one Math, one Verbal) geared towards students who are competing for National Merit® scholarships.

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Edsurge

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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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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 also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators throughout the state can now administer the diagnostic as a beginning-of-year and mid-year assessment to measure students’ overall grade-level proficiency in math and English language arts based on Virginia’s Standards of Learning. To learn more about the IXL Diagnostic, please visit [link].

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Take math, for example. There are some things that technology excels at, like collecting data, and other things that teachers excel at, like teaching and motivating students. As students see their proficiency improving in each skill, their confidence grows and they become motivated by their results. Is the AI unbiased?

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2018

The data we analyze is collected from various sources, including the Florida Standards Assessment (FSA) in reading and math for grades 3-5 and the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test Science for grade 5. We also use diagnostic data that we collect three times a year using the i-Ready program for reading and math in grades K-5.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2017

Google is helping to drive a philosophical change in public education—prioritizing training children in skills like teamwork and problem-solving while de-emphasizing the teaching of traditional academic knowledge, like math formulas,” writes the New York Times. “It

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

DreamBox Learning ®, the K-8 digital math company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, announced today that the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) has selected DreamBox Learning Math to support teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate student learning loss.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of my career, I’ve had some years where my students’ standardized test scores were on the rise , and other years where they stagnated. While educators are engaged in long-winded conversations about how these tests don’t accurately reflect student success, kids are losing out every day.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2017

Thinkster Math is an iPad based math tutorial program for K-8, aligned with Common Core and based on well-known international math programs such as Singapore Math. With Thinkster, students complete their math assignments wherever, whenever, and however it best fits their needs. Coaches are qualified math teachers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s like math anxiety — they think they can’t do it,” the professor says of some students. Take-up rates are higher among students who have high math test scores, students who are male, white students — all the students you’d expect it to be,” he says. How do we get them motivated and compensated?”

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 18, 2015

Standardized tests can seem like the bane of an entire school’s existence. Minimizing stress for test day is one of the most important factors for preparing your students to take any test. Here are a few ways to take the stress out of preparing for standardized tests. But don’t stop there—use a. Perspective.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

MARCH 13, 2025

It may not be a popular opinion, but standardized tests play an important role in measuring growth for students, informing instruction for teachers, and guiding decisions for schools and districts. But the testing season and necessary test prep can, admittedly, be tough on our students! In addition to covering (and reviewing!)

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