Sentences with phrase «in math by»

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Coached a group of 10 students for Annual International Kangaroo Math Competition IKMC out of which four were awarded silver and three were awarded gold medal distinctions • Earned the «Most Responsible Teacher» award for three consecutive years • Enhanced the overall class percentage in math by 30 % through implementation of well - planned individual focused remedial classes for mathematics

These funds are helping to transform the Auburn school by raising student proficiency in math by 30 percent and reading by 35 percent over the five years of the grant.

In high schools, the effect narrowed the achievement gap in math by 50 percent over the length of the study.

The Capitol Hill campus, which serves grades 9 - 12, increased the percentage of students who met or exceeded expectations in math by ten percent since last year's assessment.

For example, in 2012, Buffalo charter students on average outperformed their district peers in math by nearly 27 percentage points.

Virginia, which gained a waiver last month despite its lack of aggressiveness on the reform front, reaffirmed its reputation for being more - concerned with not disrupting the state's educational ancien regime by approving AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017.

For African American and Latino kindergarteners, access to high - quality pre-K could close the achievement gap in reading entirely and lessen the gap in math by large percentages.

The infusion of extra resources helped Vegas Verdes Elementary increase proficiency in English by 46 to 113 students and in math by 144 to 193 students.

The administration has already had to struggle with the embarrassment arising from its approval of Virginia's abysmally low proficiency targets, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017.

Last month, the administration scrambled to get Virginia to scrap its low expectations for poor and minority children amid outcry from reformers and civil rights activists over the Old Dominion's move to approve AMO targets that only require districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students (and 65 percent of Latino peers) are proficient in math by 2016 - 2017; those targets were blessed by the administration back in June as part of its approval of the state's waiver proposal.

From the embarrassment of approving abysmally low — and Plessy v. Ferguson - like — proficiency targets (including that for Virginia, which had only required districts to ensure that 57 percent of black students and 65 percent of Latino peers were proficient in math by 2016 - 2017), to complaints from House Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Minority Member George Miller and civil rights - based reformers about how the administration allowed states such as South Dakota to count General Education Development certificates in their graduation rate calculations (and minimize graduation rates as a factor in accountability measures), the administration finds itself contending with complaints from civil rights - based reformers as well as from centrist Democrats finally acknowledging the high cost of their push for revamping No Child at any cost.

Michigan, for example, expects its districts and schools to only ensure that 44 percent of all elementary students (and a mere 36 percent of high school students) were proficient in math by 2012 - 2013, according to its approved waiver request.

The Kentucky Department of Education recently set a goal of reducing gaps to proficiency by half by 2030 which will require increasing 3rd grade proficiency and beyond for at least an additional 4,800 children in reading and 6,300 children in math by 2020.

In Tulsa, students in high - implementing community schools outperformed noncommunity schools in math by 32 points and reading by 19 points.

The researchers found that «displaced students from district schools that closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of learning in reading» and «thirty - four days of learning» in math by their third year in a new school.

Doubling instructional time in math by replacing other course work thus increased tracking by ability and class size.

Relative to the comparison schools, the interventions raised achievement in math by.10 standard deviations per year — in line with the hypothetical estimates above.

On recent New York State tests, students in city charter schools, serving a population of more than 90 percent African - American and Latino students, exceeded district - wide proficiency rates in math by 13 percentage points and by 5 percent in English.

According to a 2015 study of charters in urban regions across the country, conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University, African - American students at charters out - performed comparable students at nearby public schools in math by roughly a half years» worth of learning.

New research suggests that young children may make gains in math by counting with their fingers.

The gains in math by 8th grade students were nearly as great, though no 8th grade reading gains are detected.

When charter students moved to higher - quality schools, they gained an additional fifty - eight days of learning in reading and eighty - eight days of learning in math by the third year after their school closed.

Houston decreased the white / African - American achieve - ment gap in math by 21 percentage points, more than all the other districts.

By now, more than 1 million people have watched the online video in which Salman Khan — a charming MIT math whiz, Harvard Business School graduate, and former Boston hedge - fund analyst — explains how he began tutoring his New Orleans cousins in math by posting short lessons for them on YouTube.

The sharpest gains for these high - performing eighth graders in Texas were between 2000 and 2005, building on the improvement made in math by Texas fourth graders four years earlier.

And more good news: the most recent sixth - grade proficiency scores surpassed AYP targets» for language and eighth graders met AYP language targets, missing AYP in math by one point.

60 percent of all students and subgroups proficient in English / language arts, and 48 percent proficient in math by 2024 - 25; in addition, the state wants a four - year cohort graduation rate of 94 percent for all students and subgroups.

We find that NCLB accountability increased the share of students performing at or above basic in math by 10 percentage points among 4th graders and 6 percentage points among 8th graders.

Only 35 percent of U.S. 8th graders were identified as proficient in math by the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

ANet says those scoring proficient in English increased by 4.5 percent and in math by 9 percent from the year earlier.

Hacker makes his claim in New York, where the state Board of Regents did its part to raise the bar in math by mandating a score of 65 to pass on the integrated algebra Regents exam required of students.

You advance in maths by comparing the properties of one thing with the properties of another and you notice similarities in behaviour.

The latest data shows that 59 per cent of pupils who are eligible for free school meals achieved the expected standard in maths by the end of primary school, compared to over three - quarters (78 per cent) of all other pupils.

That means Singapore's students are ahead of Australia's in science by the equivalent of one - and - a-half years of schooling, in reading by around one year of schooling, and in maths by around two - and - a-third years of schooling.

Not exact matches

One 2014 study by the University of Warwick in England asked subjects to perform skill - based math problems, which researchers used to mimic typical white - collar work.

This enriched program focuses on high - level fundamentals in everything from math to the humanities in its first two years, followed by an accelerated, discipline - specific engineering science major.

This wildly popular course is offered by the University of California, San Diego, via Coursera, It provides «invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines.»

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

Here's how the math works: The average college graduate in 2016 has $ 37,000 in student - loan debt, according to estimates by Cappex.com, a college and scholarship search site.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

The valuation in the next cell is simple math: Divide the amount of investment by the share offered, and you get the implied valuation.

The math on stock buybacks is pretty simple: by repurchasing your own company's stock in the market you reduce the number of shares outstanding, thereby increasing your earnings per share by cutting your denominator (earnings per share is calculated by dividing income by shares outstanding).

According to the National Science Foundation, women with bachelor's degrees in math and computer sciences has declined by about 25 percent since the mid-80s, when computer games were aggressively marketed as a boy's hobby.

Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

But this might not reflect an increase in earnings per share because of actual value creation, but because of simple math: Earnings per share is profit divided by shares outstanding.

He's also the winner of the inaugural Breakthrough Junior Challenge, funded in part by a grant from Zuckerberg, which asks young people between the ages of 13 and 18 to create short videos that communicate big ideas in life sciences, physics and math.

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

The data show that if you try to get your child to learn math by paying them for successfully completing exercises, any short - term successes will likely be balanced by her losing interest in math in the long term.

Now in its fourth year, the Digital Cookie platform continues to keep Girl Scout programming current and relevant to today's girls, including by providing them with valuable business and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills that prepare them for 21st - century leadership.