Math teachers have had a new problem to solve this school year: How do you foster engagement and understanding among students when you’re often not in the room with them? “As if mathematics weren’t ...
A math class with pianos? It may sound unusual, but Marcus Blackwell Jr. thinks it’s the perfect way to teach students math. The company he founded, Make Music Count, uses tunes by artists like Ariana ...
Sixth graders in the math class taught by Marietta Gibb and Nicole Parasiliti at DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca work in small groups, allowing kids to practice different skills in the same classroom.
A third grader in Kathy Neumann’s class in Howard County, Md., uses one-inch tiles to find the area of a rectangle. The district is embracing several practices to boost students’ math achievement ...
Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...
Like many students around the world, Eithne, 14, in Chorley, United Kingdom, was struggling to keep up in math at school after more than a year of COVID-19 related disruptions. In June 2021, her ...
Regular physical activity is linked to improvements in physical and mental health including anxiety and depression. It can also improve cognitive functioning such as attention and memory, and academic ...
Jill Fielding-Wells receives funding from the Australian Research Council under a current Discovery Project. kym.fry@acu.edu.au is also a classroom teacher. Her employment at ACU is funded by the ...