Sentences with phrase «math tests did»

More than 200,000 of the nearly 1.2 million students expected to take the annual reading and math tests did not sit for them in 2015.

Federal exams, she noted, do not reflect the same gains in learning over the past several years that state English and math tests do.

Just because you scored an A in a math test does not make you a genius or give you a beautiful mind like John Nash's.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

Scientists and educators have long noted that kids who have a positive attitude towards math do better in the subject, but is that just because acing tests naturally makes you enjoy something, or does the arrow of causation point the other way?

It found that children of American homeowners scored no better on math and reading tests than renters» kids, nor did they have lower high - school dropout rates.

If lets say some students of a certain class flunk the Maths test but most others passed it, does it mean the students who failed did not study their Math book properly and there is something wrong with the Math book?

Einstein's Gravity Theory Passes Toughest Test Yet... E = mc2... (U — Pb)... two math formulas... that do not lie or sin!!!

To test people's tolerance for various sounds, scientists asked them to do math problems in silence, and then while listening to talking, «motherese» (aka baby talk), whining and machine noise.

Look at where we are in the global math and science testing and tell me that having standardized education doesn't produce results.

«They made me put on these earphones and take this test, all sorts of questions on it, math, other stuff, nothing to do with baseball,» Robinson said.

I have a math test coming up I don't get certain things

I don't hope to pass my math tests, I just pass them.

My oldest struggled with math last year and didn't pass the math portion for the 2nd grade exit test at the end of the year.

instead of «How did you do on the math test?»

Let's say you're worried about your math test because you didn't do so well on the last one.

These include homework - free weekends like the one coming up over Thanksgiving break, encouraging teachers to economize on assignments by, for instance, assigning fewer practice problems in math (10 can serve just as well as 25), and creating a centralized homework calendar that will allow teachers to coordinate big assignments, so that kids don't end up with a lot of tests or projects due on the same day.

I recently had a long, serious talk with my son about how he needs to do well on a standardized test so he can get into an advanced math class.

Do you casually bring up sex during mealtime conversation about soccer practice and a math test?

We take the stress & frustration out of the math equation and do all the Teaching, Testing, and Grading for you.

It tends to imply excellence at certain academic subjects (particularly sciences, maths and English), or perhaps the kind of person who can do well in IQ tests.

Pisa tests from the OECD reveal that for the first time, the UK does not make the top 20 in any subject, in international tests taken by 15 year olds in maths, reading and science.

Don't lower expectations for ELA, math tests, say Education Trust and Urban League officials.

Schools in the city's Renewal program improved more on state standardized tests in reading and math than the rest of the city's schools, but that doesn't mean they're all safe from the chopping block, the mayor said.

Success Academy's students, most of whom are black or Hispanic, performed better on this year's state reading and math tests than did students in any other district in the state.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

Around one fifth of students statewide did not take the math and English tests required for third through eighth graders.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

She does see some cause for optimism: A new generation of tests are being developed in the U.S. to assess how well students have met the Common Core State Standards, the set of academic benchmarks in literacy and math that have been adopted by 43 states.

The team asked them to do a calculation designed to test their ability to slow down and do the math, rather than taking gut - reaction shortcuts that can lead to the wrong answer.

What do specialized U.S. math and science schools do differently that allows them to churn out graduates who ace national and international tests on those subjects?

In addition to a significant jump in math test scores, students receiving tutoring and mentoring failed two fewer courses per year on average than students who did not participate, and their likelihood of being «on track» for graduation rose by nearly one - half.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.

The results «essentially confirm» earlier studies — and they should finally put to rest the idea that girls aren't going into technical fields because they can't do the math, says Ann Gallagher, a psychologist who studies testing at the Law School Admission Council in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Women also do better at maths tests if they are told that the test is designed to identify students with strong ability, rather than pinpoint those who are not very good.

Students who didn't score well on the image test tended to receive lower math scores, even after factors, such as IQ levels, were taken into account.

If you aren't into the math, it means that there is a decent chance that a woman who doesn't have GD will receive a false positive and also a chance that a woman may test negative and actually have GD.

In a double - blind, placebo - controlled study, they tested subjects» cognitive abilities using three methods, asking them to do simple math, a timed - response task, and the classic Stroop test (in which color words like red are written in other colors, like blue, and subjects are asked about the color or the word).

But, I highly advise ruffling a few small test swatches and doing the math to figure out your perfect scale before ruffling your irreplaceable fabric.

He had to have a «precautionary» test (you can probably do the math), and I had an appointment with an eye specialist to make sure I wasn't developing glaucoma.

More than prepping for a test, teachers need to instill in students a sense that everyone can do math.

But Connelly changed things, reducing English and math class sizes to an average of sixteen students, hiring more teachers for core subjects («I buy teachers — I don't buy test coordinators,» she states), and switching to mastery grading.

As the year winds down and the math test has already been administered, I'm doing my best to just enjoy working with students directly.

Most colleges employed (and many still do) placement tests to determine whether an entering student was adequately prepared to undertake credit - bearing courses in core subjects like math and English, with remedial classes assigned to those who weren't.

The bottom line is that Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

One research finding that it highlighted is that when teachers and parents tell girls their intelligence can expand with experience and learning, they do better on math tests and are more likely to say they want to continue...

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Do you support or oppose letting parents decide whether to have their children take state math and reading tests?

They don't record which students taking the state's standardized math tests completed them at the end of an online course, for example, and which took them after a face - to - face class.