Sentences with phrase «math than a kid»

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

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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.

From math to reading to teamwork, kids can learn about more than hockey on a Chicago Wolves game.

Many kids would rather have their peers view them as the «class clown» rather than the kid who can't do the math.

Whatever kind of struggles kids tend to have with their math lessons, they can always be fixed with little more than patient coaching.

According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.

And one grad student had two kids, which I now know occupies more time and attention than any dinky second career telling math puns to drunk people.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

Far from trailing the developed world in science education, as some claim, «on PISA, the U.S. has more high - scoring kids in science than any other country» and nearly as many in the top math category as top - scoring Japan and Korea, Salzman says.

Children from families of low socioeconomic status generally score lower than more affluent kids on standardized tests of intelligence, language, spatial reasoning, and math, says Priti Shah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin who was not involved in the study.

Some kids just below the line will succeed in college nonetheless (and may even be able to skip remedial courses); some kids over the line will falter (probably because, not surprisingly, young people need to be «prepared» in much more than reading and math to finish a college degree).

One of the things that people often observe is that kids are much more involved in sports and music than they are in, for example, math or science or writing.

But it's actually easier for kids — from all socioeconomic backgrounds — to forget what they learned in math over the summer than it is for them to lose reading skills.

According to the New York Times, the opt - out movement more than doubled the number of students who did not take federally mandated math and English Language Arts (ELA) tests, with 165,000 kids — about one in six — not taking at least one of the tests.

In the year 2000, American kids scored much higher than kids in Poland on tests of reasoning, math, and reading comprehension.

As for joy of learning, there is a mountain of evidence that American kids enjoy learning math more than Japanese kids, evidence collected from large, random samples of students of different ages and grades.

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

And when we compare these kids to those from the top quartile, we see that a high - ESCS test - taker in the U.S. is eight times likelier than a low - ESCS student to be a top scorer in math.

Night of Math Games Preps Families and Kids for Tests «The most memorable moment from our testing kickoff and math game night event was the evening's icebreaker activity — a round of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Erin Tuttle says she noticed the change in the math homework at about the same time as Heather, and she also noticed that her child was bringing home a lot fewer novels and more «Time magazine for kids» — a reflection of the English standards» emphasis on «informational texts» rather than literature.

Despite progress, two - thirds of Springfield kids still can't read or do math at grade level - almost thirty percent fewer than the state average.

The number of kids who didn't take PARCC — 44,000 missed the English Language Arts component and 42,000 didn't take the math segment — represent about 4 percent of the more than 1 million students who were tested.

But there might be other factors in play; research found a popular American math textbook is more challenging than South Korea's textbook, but South Korean kids still are much better at math.

In this episode of the podcast, Jay Greene talks with Marty West about why he studies field trips, why we shouldn't focus only on boosting reading and math scores, and why kids learn more from plays than from movies (and what this might mean for online learning).

Right now, in my zip code, only 25 percent of kids are proficient in reading and less than 20 percent of kids are proficient in math.

Less than a third of the kids are proficient in math.

Each year, districts and schools were rated based on whether their elementary school kids performed better than the prior year's students in math and English.

In discussing the need for a kids - first agenda, Austin cites data points that show that less than half of 2016 graduates were eligible for the state's public university system and that 71 percent of LA Unified students were not proficient in math on state standardized tests last year.

A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15 - year - old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids.

There are great math games for kids which can also be played with children older than 8 if they need help «catching up» or mastering Math Facts.

Students enrolled in WINGS for kids after school program have significantly higher math & reading scores, better grades, improved school attendance, and reported higher self - esteem and less anxiety than non-WINGS students.

I've never been good at math, so just seeing that my kid managed to get to the «Goal» level is more than enough to make me believe that last year's 7th grade math teacher should stay.

Especially in high - poverty elementary schools, we waste precious years by giving kids a steady diet of reading and math rather than building their knowledge of the world by immersing them in history, science, and the arts.

These show that American kids in schools where less than 10 percent of students are low income score very well — best in the world, in fact, in 4th grade math and 8th grade math and science.

There are all sorts of math tricks and shortcuts to help kids remember math facts, and kids like to learn them because it feels easier than doing things the regular way.

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

In some poor, typically urban schools fewer than 10 % are proficient at reading and math by fourth grade, and yet these kids are pushed forward by the demand of a one - size - fits - all educational model to work within a curriculum that was designed for kids who are fully proficient in the learning content and skills that were «covered» in previous school years.

Dual - income families already know that the daycare math just doesn't add up if you have more than one kid.

«If you do the math, I think it actually comes out that paying the 3 percent foreign transition fee might be cheaper than the annual fee for what he wants to allow his kids to spend on this card,» the spokeswoman says.

Not only is he someone that makes maths fun — mostly by judging your brain to be that of a middle - aged dog rather than a 15 - year - old kid — but he's also an assist trophy in Smash Bros, which means he can take you out if you don't do your homework.

[teacher] Ms Dutton saw what made me different from other more normal kids and taught me how to use my creativity and mechanically inclined mind to be better than those kids... I visualize shapes to do math, physics and even chemistry.

In fact, after following 17,000 people in the United Kingdom over four decades, Bates saw that young subjects who were better at reading and math still ended up having higher incomes, better housing and better jobs in adulthood than the kids who had perhaps higher IQs or richer parents, but read or performed math at lower levels.