Students put objects and materials into groups based on their observable properties, test materials for strength and absorbency, and use their results to make a boat that can hold the most pennies ...

When children are presented with a math word problem ... enhances conceptual and problem-solving skills. For example, a student may already know that 6 x 2 = 12. To solve the problem, "If there ...

to make word problems more approachable, said Kevin Dykema, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and an 8th grade math teacher in Mattawan, Michigan.

In classrooms with mixed abilities, students reading a word problem out loud in groups can help, said David Dai, an 8th and 9th grade math instructor at the Barton Academy for Advanced World ...

The researchers started with the GSM8K's standardized set of 8,000 grade-school level mathematics word problems ... drop between 0.3 percent and 9.2 percent. In contrast, the second set (which ...

But this body of work feels less like a chapbook and more like a novel. When 2nd Grade take a moment to step back from the narrative, the coziness intensifies. Lo-fi strummers “Joan on Ice ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally ... told me that the district selected ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally ... told me that the district selected ...

"When it was time for recess, I overheard my teacher asking three of the popular girls, 'Okay, where did you say she hid the ...

Teens are taking slang from the screen to the schoolyard. It’s reshaping the way that they connect with each other and the ...

The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...