Sentences with phrase «reading about math»
In terms of intrinsic motivation, only 34 % said they enjoyed reading about math and 37 % said they did math because they enjoyed it.
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Read about this math wizard in the Placer Herald.
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I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.
I thought he'd like to read what you wrote about math.
From math to reading to teamwork, kids can learn about more than hockey on a Chicago Wolves game.
For K and 1st grade you can be done with «school» work (reading, writing, math) in about an hour a day (while the baby naps).
Discover fun ways to instill in your child a love of math, reading, speaking, listening, and writing, and what to know about di...
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We talk about how school age students can lose up to two months of reading and math development each summer.
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and for me it wasn't just about teaching my kids to read or swim or do math — it was about having fun with them.
And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really «teaching» these capacities the way one might teach math or reading — indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.
Don't ask about the after math of the storm because it ain't Continue Reading...
For the child born late preterm, the preschool and kindergarten health supervision visits are an important opportunity to inquire about skills in early reading and math including letter and word recognition, letter sounds, number recognition, counting and recognition of colors and shapes, which are some foundational skills for school readiness.
Read about it and get my fall math game in my original post.
After reading about our subtraction math game to go with the story, be sure to check out all the other creative activities to go with this book linked up at the end of this post!
«They've started to teach students about feelings as explicitly as they teach math and reading,» writes Seattle Times education reporter John Higgins.
Ideas for activities might include reading in a unique location, displaying high frequency words in a fun way, incorporating math into everyday life challenges or even writing about a summer activity.
I have zero regrets about cloth diapering my newborn in my after math, but you can read about my newborn cloth diapering synopsis in the moment.
Talk about what you can do — from reading to math — over the summer to prepare her for her future schooling.
Continue reading «Politics is about more than maths - Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform»»
Studies indicate most students will lose about two months of a grade level in math skills and low - income students lose more than two months in reading.
Randi Weingarten likes to brag a little about the reading and math test scores posted this year at two New York City charter schools she...
He also spoke about the public education system, saying young people are graduating from high school without having the reading, writing or math skills needed to excel in a college environment.
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.
A data breach at the company that develops New York State's third - through - eighth grade reading and math tests allowed an unauthorized user to access information about 52 students who took the tests by computer last spring, the state's Education Department said on Thursday.
The intervention, short numerical story problems delivered through an iPad app, significantly increased children's math achievement across the school year compared to a reading (control) group, especially for children whose parents are habitually anxious about math.
They all work slightly differently, but most of them use a complex algorithm that takes information about your cycle (i.e., basal body temperature [BBT] readings, cycle length, and period start and stop days) and uses math to predict your fertility each day.
But when I stopped to think about just how long I had this jean jacket, and did some math, I came... Read more»
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It may be harder to code and analyze essays about paintings than to run another value - added regression on the math and reading scores that the centralized authorities have collected for us, but that doesn't mean it's any less important.
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.
While about two - thirds of SIG schools did register modest gains in reading and math, scores at one - third actually declined over the period.
But something was lost from the Clinton administration, which provided a lot of supportive materials to parents about their children's reading and math.
The difference between affluent and poor students is around three years of schooling, it equates to about three years of schooling in each maths, science and reading literacy — that is really, very concerning.
Imagine teaching math or reading without a curriculum; each teacher would be on his or her own, making decisions about what students need to learn.
«Reading and math are a big focus in our district, so they are often discussed; and we often talk about data and what we can do differently across the curriculum.»
The bottom line, as phrased by Education Next's Paul Peterson, Martin West, and Michael Henderson, is that «everyone wants more emphasis on just about everything in school, except athletics, though the general public is especially eager for more emphasis on reading and math, while teachers see greater needs in history and the arts.»
The exam, which takes around 3 and a half hours, asks students to apply reading, math and science skills to real - life situations and respond to questions about themselves and their schools.
The impact on student math and reading achievement differed by about 20 percent of a standard deviation, a difference which the authors note is «striking, roughly equivalent to having a teacher who is at the 16th percentile of effectiveness rather than at the 50th percentile.»
About 62 percent of those responding had trouble finding applicants with the necessary math skills, and 59 percent reported problems finding potential employees with sufficient reading skills.
They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.
about his findings that later school start times increase student achievement in math and reading and have many other benefits.
The two groups differ by about 20 percent of a standard deviation in students» math and reading achievement (see Figure 2).
And there are real questions about whether it makes sense to equate effectiveness at moving math and reading proficiency with broader instructional excellence.
Tests are given about every three weeks in math, and every four - to - six weeks in reading and language arts.
Now, in 2013, CREDO finds that charter students perform somewhat better in reading and about the same in math as their district counterparts.
◦ Trend: Nearly four out of five respondents favor the federal requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from third through eighth and at least once in high school, about the same as in the past.
Only about one in four of the high - school graduates who took the American College Testing (ACT) program's college - readiness test last year met the benchmarks in reading comprehension, English, math, and science.
And about one in three Newark students attends «beating the odds» schools, those that outperform schools with similar demographics in their state in reading and math.