News tagged with elementary math
Psychology study finds key early skills for later math learning
Psychologists at the University of Missouri have identified the beginning of first grade math skills that teachers and parents should target to effectively improve children's later math learning.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 11, 2011 |
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'Inputs' that boost Latino students' test scores revealed in study
Latina/o students' math and reading Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test scores improve when urban schools increase operating expenditures, decrease student-teacher ratios and increase the number of bilingual ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Hold the Calculators: Let's Talk About Math!
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many children, when learning to read, are encouraged by their teachers to retell all they remember about a story in order to build their comprehension skills. But can similar comprehension strategies be applied ...
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Elementary school women teachers transfer their fear of doing math to girls
Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 25, 2010 |
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'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math (w/ Video)
The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas - one computer shared ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 10, 2009 |
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An animated penguin boosts kids' math scores
California's hottest new math teacher is an animated penguin named JiJi. Yes, it's true. A mute, waddling, tuxedo-clad cartoon figure has been quietly taking over math programs dotting Silicon Valley, dramatically improving ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Cooperative learning methods top list of effective approaches for secondary mathematics
Cooperative learning methods have been found to be most effective in raising the math scores of middle and high school students, according to a comprehensive research review by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Bad jobs: Why they make some women bad moms
(PhysOrg.com) -- The kind of job a woman has may be just as important as whether she works or not when it comes to the well-being of her child.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 01, 2009 |
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