Teachers at IPS are coming up with new ways to improve teaching in their classrooms by combining art studies and traditional academics. One teacher uses names of superheroes like Batman or Hulk to teach the different kinds of notes in notation music, while an arts director uses the Day of the Dead as an opportunity […]
Hispanic immigrant children living in rural areas often suffer from learning disabilities caused by visual dysfunctions. They remain undetected for a number of reasons. School screenings usually only check for visual acuity rather than vision dysfunction. Parents usually are the first to notice problems, but Hispanic immigrant parents often don’t speak English, the child’s student […]
This article is about a young woman who has attempted to get into a college. At the current time she is having anxiety because she would really like to start her future doing something that will benefit her in the long run. The article then begins to go into the credentials of the university and […]
Mathematics is notorious for its emphasis on the “little details”, neglecting which can mean the difference between failure and a passing grade, not just for young students but even for many high students, young adults, and adults. Here are three tips to help navigate the tricky world of arithmetic: 1) a “Product” is the resulting […]
Sproglit has come out with a “revolutionary” new way of helping visual learners and students with dyscalcula and ADHD understand basic mathematics and the number line concept via specially designed posters which demonstrate the relationships between numbers in an entirely pictorial manner, with minimal use of digits and other symbols. Researchers at BYU have demonstrated […]
A new tool for teaching math (an ed-tech program) has been developed by a pair with programming/business backgrounds for use in schools. The platform is called “Front Row Education” and is designed to allow each student to progress at their own pace through material developed by teachers. It’s a multimedia curriculum (available for use on […]
Math teacher Matt Coty of Northview Public School in Grand Rapids is starting an after-school support program to increase student’s confidence in Math. Matt Coty doesn’t want students to lack confidence in math when they might have the right idea but have a few things wrong. Coty will run the Geometry portion, while his colleague, […]
The new “Common Core” math curricula are driving one parent crazy. Attempting to improve the way arithmetic is taught, US educators are using systems that are completely foreign to parents who might try to help their struggling kids on homework assignments. This predictably leads to frustration as it did for Douglass Hermann, who was at […]
This article tells an everyday story of a self proclaimed “math geek mom,” running through how she gives her students a taste of how probability works by seeing if anyone in the class shares their birthday with someone else. Also, she digests the impact of a female surgeon being considered a “brain teaser” and women’s […]
The Mitchell Elementary School in Phoenix uses exercise to improve student academic performance. They have seen dramatic improvement especially in math performance. A study by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign supports the idea. Research there shows that the fitter the child the better they perform at math tasks. The principal at Mitchell Elementary reports that […]
