Making mistakes with spreadsheets can not only cause us personal frustration but can also lead to some very serious consequences.
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Not all students have access to the same level of parental help at home. So why are they judged as if they do? Two scholars probe how educators view students who fail to complete their homework.
Family outings and journal-writing can help keep kids’ academic skills sharp during the summer.
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Research has shown for more than a century that students fall behind during the summer break. An expert offers six tips on ways to help children keep up their academic skills during the summer.
Being better at math increases income but also ties satisfaction more closely to money.
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Compared to people who aren’t as good at math, people who are better at math are more happy when they have high incomes and less happy when they have lower incomes.
Civil rights activist Bob Moses founded The Algebra Project to help Black students develop strong math skills.
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The Algebra Project – a long-standing initiative to teach algebra to Black students who might not otherwise take it – sprang from Bob Moses’ work as a civil rights activist, a historian recounts.
Pro-Black STEM classes can lead to more Black scientists.
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Applying cultural sensitivity in teaching STEM to Black students can help them engage in the sciences more.
Preschool is an opportunity to develop important social skills like taking turns, working in groups and making friends.
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Your cheat sheet for best practices in teaching math at home. Keep it positive and mask your shock when your child tells you there are many ways to multiply numbers.
The extent to which parents and educators encourage children to think mathematically in the years before they enter grade one are critically important for math foundations.
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How mathematically proficient are you? And do you have the skills to back up your level of math confidence? The answers to those questions may have ramifications for your financial and physical health.
Parents have a responsibility for their children’s math development too.
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Instead of getting “back to basics” to improve math skills, we should make math literacy a priority by developing, attracting and supporting skilled teachers, and improving math literacy at home.
Christmas lists usually suggest the latest and greatest technology, but blocks are still the best toy you can buy your child.
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Blocks probably won’t top Christmas wish lists, but they have many benefits including developing fine motor skills, social, cognitive and language skills, and spatial reasoning and language.
Graphing calculators – like the ones used in this seventh grade Dallas classroom – have become ubiquitous in U.S. education.
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More students are taking Advanced Placement calculus in high school. They may be learning techniques for solving certain problems at the expense of the mathematical foundations they need to advance.
Unequal education is a result of what happens in schools.
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