What’s behind ‘bad’ math skills?

E-School News - Laura Devaney "Ask any student what subject [...]

September 23rd, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Minecraft Spurs Interest in STEM Areas, Commands $2.5B from Microsoft

Education News - Grace Smith "Minecraft, the popular “sandbox” game [...]

September 23rd, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, STEM, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Mother’s thyroid level ‘may predict child’s poor maths’

BBC News - Staff Writer "Children born to mothers who [...]

September 19th, 2014|Categories: Child Development, Childhood Education, Math, Mathematics, Moms, Primary School, Research|Tags: Education, School|

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Undoing the ‘Rote Understanding’ Approach to Common Core Math Standards

Education News - Barry Garelick "A video about how the [...]

September 16th, 2014|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Common Core Standards, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Math Skills In Childhood Can Permanently Affect Brain Formation Later In Life

Medical Daily - Dana Dovey "Not good at math? Don’t [...]

September 15th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Brain, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Curiosity key to learning mathematics

The Korea Times - Chung Hyun-chae "Ingrid Daubechies, president of [...]

September 14th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Curiosity, Current Events, Education, Korea, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Teaching students to overcome a fear of math

The Intelligencer - Aldemaro Romero Jr. "For many people, math [...]

September 14th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Performance, Accountability, Algebra, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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The Best Language for Math

The Wall Street Journal - Sue Shellenbarger "Chinese, Japanese, Korean [...]

September 13th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Chinese, Current Events, Education, English, Foreign, Foreign Language, Language, Language Immersion, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Learn to love maths

The Guardian - Alex Bellos "People are scared of maths, [...]

September 13th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Britain, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Creativity, Current Events, Education, England, Great Britain (UK), Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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How to turn every child into a “math person”

Quartz - Miles Kimball "Last month, the US Math Team [...]

September 11th, 2014|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, Math, Mathematics, News, Teacher, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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