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An estimated 12% of first graders' most-used media at home is educational, a new study suggests. Results also showed that ...
New data from 2.5M students shows boys and girls start out equal in math. So why does a gender gap emerge just months after school begins?
Gayathri Ramkumar, a teacher at Aurora Central High School, aims to get students talking about math. Her lessons combine ...
She’s found that although they’re only a year apart, 1st and 2nd graders prefer different incentives, Keller said. “First graders, they just wanted to know if it was right or wrong.
By welcoming its second cohort this summer, the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program now supports nearly 60 local high schoolers ...
A three-week summer program that teaches middle school students lessons in science, technology, engineering and math — also known as STEM — was so popular that there were almost twice as many students ...
Dowling Catholic High School math teacher Amy Jurasek measuring corn plants in an Iowa State research field southwest of Ames ...
During Gayathri Ramkumar’s favorite lesson — a sort of mathematical guessing game — she’ll hear her students asking their partners things like, “Can you tell me the degree of the polynomial?” Not only ...
Last year, my son’s parent-teacher conferences were held the first week of March, right before Spring Break. It was his ...
He was nothing and nobody, and nobody cared, and he thought that everyone was watching him, that even I was watching him.
A new study has pinpointed when the gender gap in math ability appears – and it seems like your first-grade teacher holds ...
In it, they examined 100 1st and 2nd graders at two New York City schools, one of which was in the flight path of an airport.