EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing A dozen parents gathered around veteran math educator Leanna Baker, moments before students show up for what is billed as a ...
Student host Arise helps us have fun with…math! We learn characteristics of triangles by making shapes with our bodies, discover strategies to help us learn math, create a mathematician on the go, get ...
With the right lesson plan, teachers can turn struggling students into budding mathematicians. The secret is carefully guiding their adventure in numbers I still vividly remember the day, 14 years ago ...
NEW YORK — Ask a lot of people and they will tell you that math is not their strong suit. In an international student assessment program in 2009, the United States ranked 25th in math proficiency. One ...
Back in 2008, I read a story about a teacher who used NASCAR to make learning math less painful for his students. Tom Baughman, then teaching the fourth grade, called it “NASCAR Math,” and takes the ...
A morning of “Family Math Fun” at Hope College on Saturday, March 8, will feature games designed to show that mathematics doesn’t need to be scary or a chore. In fact, as the name makes clear, it can ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deidre Kelly. It has been edited for length and clarity. This is my 14th year teaching sixth-grade math, and I enjoy it just as much as I did when ...
Math and fun -- two words you probably wouldn’t put together in most cases, but now one group of students in the Valley is working to change that one puzzle at a time. “I get an adrenaline rush ...