On February 24th, 2015 a variety of students, from third grade all the way through high school came to Boeing to see what engineering in real life looks like. All the students were currently studying engineering in their class curriculum and were able to take advantage of Boeing’s K-12 STEM outreach. Based on the student […]
MathPapa offers interactive lessons and tutorials to help you better understand math. If your children are struggling with math and you don’t have the time, energy or know-how to help them with their homework, MathPapa offers step-by-step guides to solve any math problem just by entering it into the “Calculate It” bar. This app was […]
More than 700 teachers, business owners, and lawmakers, from across California, met together in Sacramento to discuss how to increase the current number of current STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) classes offered in the state. Teachers report that those taking the classes benefit beyond just their science and mathematical applications. The students who take […]
The article gives information about a school that is reaching out to parents mathematically. The school is instructing parents on how to help their children with their math homework. Since the parents are having a hard time helping their kids, the school has decided to help the parents understand math as well so that they can […]
In Utah on friday a bill named SB 196 was unamiously passed requiring all high school students who plan to attend college to pass a math placement test. However students can bypass this placement test by recevieing a C grade or higher in a concurrent college math course while still in high school. Even allowing […]
Sixteen eighth grade girls from around Grand Forks school district were hand selected by their teachers to participate in a new program, Girls Tech Club. All had high aptitudes in science technology, engineering, and math related subjects. The purpose of the program is to provide these girls with experiences, prior to high school, in fields […]
It is no secret that many children abhor mathematics. Often, they can’t see the use of it and how it applies to their daily lives. This is because math is usually memorized and not fully understood. In reality, math is a language and to understand its applications we must first interact naturally with the language […]
The fact is many students are arriving at universities across the country fully unprepared for university-level mathematics. Liberty University has attempted to address this issue through a new state-of-the-art facility called the Math Emporium. Rather than assigning students semester-long remedial lectures, Liberty assigns them a combination of lectures and “lab time,” which must be completed […]
Traditionally, teachers have only taught the traditional algorithms to solve math problems in the classroom. Any deviation from this one way was often times considered to be wrong or less than ideal. However a program in Idaho, by bringing regional mathematics specialists into the classroom, seeks to alternative ways of teaching math. In an effort […]
Students in Yuba City are learning math differently than how their parents learned it. Now in its first full year of implementation the Common Core curriculum is proving a change for how children learn, and how parents help. School district organizers started hosting a Parents Night to help some parents that are finding it difficult […]
