Bonnie Britt, a formerly retired teacher, has published two math workbooks that use co-operative games between parent or teacher and child to learn basic math skills rather than dry procedure or memorization. Miss Britt has traveled throughout the Sand Bernardino County presenting seminars on using games to encourage math skills in children as well as […]
This article is about how people with fixed-trait beliefs are not reaching their full potential or are limiting themselves. The article suggests that anyone can improve their math skills if they put in the effort. In fact only 6% of the population has dyscalculia. The rest of the people who believe they are bad at […]
Studies show there is something built into our brains that give us an understanding of numbers or math. Math has been used since ancient times in predicting the way the heavens move and construction of the pyramids. Duke Proffessor Brannon believes humans are born with primitive mathematical abilities.
Joan of Arc Middle School on the Upper West Side helps students excel in math due to the generous donation made by Columbia University. Top Honors Tutoring Program helps students excel and math and the students actually enjoy it. This is exciting because most kids do not enjoy math. In addition, this program comes with […]
There are not enough women in STEM fields today. Men still make up the majority of STEM jobs, but the STEM for girls program is trying to change that. By showing young girls exactly what they could do and the improvements they could make to the world by joining the STEM workforce.
Instead of sitting in a bland boring classroom, these kids are outside, having a good time, learning math. Being outside and learning in fun ways helps the kids with mathematics and the nice weather and fresh air are being enjoyed as well. For one child the most exciting part of it all was trying to […]
It is very important to get children interested in science at a young age. This can be accomplished by teaching them through fun projects that they may find interesting. Science fairs are one of the good ways to encourage children to pursue with this career. Children that win prizes in these fairs often feel more […]
As a whole, the process and ways of standardized tests in America are not doing much to the young students in this country. Studies are finding that since standardized testing was introduced, there has not been a rise of student’s grade in math related subjects. Because of this, experts are wondering if we should get […]
Brenda Konicke, a math teaching consultant, recently taught teachers from Perkin District 108 how to use hands-on items to help students grasp math concepts. People learn differently, and the old teaching methods don’t work for all students. Using shaped objects can often help a student understand a math problem that an equation on a blackboard […]
Workplace Investment solutions partnered with the Education Coalition of Macon County to offer a paid internship to developing engineering students. Mackenzie Mason, the focus of the article, was given a real world experience at Caterpillar Inc. to join a worker on the line and see how the large scale machinery is put together.
