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It pays to compare: Comparison helps children grasp math concepts
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Comparing different ways of solving math problems is a great way to help middle schoolers learn new math concepts, researchers from Vanderbilt and Harvard universities have found.
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Early academic skills, not behavior, best predict school success
Nov 13, 2007 |
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An educational study unprecedented in scope finds that children who enter kindergarten with elementary mathematics and reading skills are the most likely to experience later academic success -- whether or not they have social ...
Sharing Now Might Help Kids Learn Advanced Math Later
May 21, 2008 |
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Sharing might help young children become better people, but it might also make them better at math, according to preliminary findings of a study being conducted at North Carolina State University.
An animated penguin boosts kids' math scores
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Pre-verbal number sense common to monkeys, babies, college kids
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Basic arithmetic and "number sense" appear to be part of the shared evolutionary past of many primates; it's the use of language to explain abstractions that apparently takes human math to a higher level.
Results show math, science aren't out of reach
Aug 26, 2009 |
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The conflicting data coming out about schools can make your head swirl. Too few kids ready for college. Too few students mastering their subjects. Too many teens trailing their global peers in math and science.
Evolution education for K-12 teachers needs beefing up, says CU-Boulder professor
Feb 15, 2009 |
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A failure to grasp the fundamentals of biological systems may be leaving K-12 teachers and students vulnerable to claims by intelligent design creationists, new-age homeopaths and other "hucksters," according to a University ...
Cooperative learning methods top list of effective approaches for secondary mathematics
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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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 ...
Hand gestures dramatically improve learning
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 25, 2007 |
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Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gesturers to remember what they’ve learned. In today’s issue of the journal Cognition, a University of Rochester scientist sugges ...
NASA eClips: A New Approach to Learning
Sep 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is making available a free Web-based educational product to learners of all ages across the country. NASA eClips consists of more than 55 short, 5-10 minute video segments, which are available on-demand ...
Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds
Apr 24, 2008 |
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A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using “real-world,” concrete examples. Researchers led by Jennifer Kaminski, researcher scientist at Ohio State University’s ...
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