Sentences with phrase «than the math classes»

Other than a math class, the rest of the day at Ridge and Valley is unscheduled.

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Then there is the NDP platform, which has more imaginary numbers than a university math class.

But as someone who has taken more math classes in college than he is willing to admit, I can declare without equivocation that EVERY circle is perfect.

Take an intro astronomy class and they can explain in basic terms (using basic concepts in math and physics) how time unfolded and what conditions were — and subsequently why «magical bits of everything» formed in to matter than led to the birth of the dinosaurs... It's ok to open your mind; and perhaps even God was the cause of the Big Bang.

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

She gives the example of a school with five fifth grade classes, where students in one classroom score much better on the math tests than the other four.

But I have a lot of sympathy with the math major in Langdon's class who raises his hand and says, «Phi is one H of a lot cooler than pi.»

He taught a «physics for all» class where he explained the principles of physics with words rather than math.

A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture - style than fail in classes incorporating so - called active learning that expects them to participate in discussions and problem - solving beyond what they've memorized.

An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has imparted a lesson that might resonate with many students who sat through them: Enough with the lectures, already.

Before classes even started, my academic advisor suggested that I might want to choose something easier than physics and astronomy, despite coming in with an A + average in high school and scoring in the top 5 percent on the math assessment.

I could do the math (barely), so I wasn't entirely wrong in deducing that the math whiz in my class named Ted was a lot closer to perfection than I; it was as clear as the evidence that Bob was the ideal quarterback I'd never become.

DPS has more than doubled the number of students taking and passing Advanced Placement courses, and black students now take advanced math classes at the same rate as whites (Hispanic students lag by only 1 percentage point).

In the fall, a month into the school year, only the preliminary MCAS scores were public, but Qazilbash says that the fifth - graders scored higher in math and science than any fifth - grade class that came before them in what was then South Lawrence East Middle School.

You wouldn't see it in most classrooms, you wouldn't know it by looking at slumping national test - score averages, but a cadre of American teenagers are reaching world - class heights in math — more of them, more regularly, than ever before.

More than half of college freshmen are told they must take remedial classes, most often in math, and these remedial math classes have low pass rates.

Those who received tutoring grew substantially more than their counterparts, and their math - class grades grew substantially as well.

In the class of 2015, more than nine out of ten students whose highest math course was Trigonometry or Algebra II fail to meet the NAEP proficient standard.

Cambridge, MA — A new study finds that 8th grade students in the U.S. score higher on standardized tests in math and science when their teachers allocate greater amounts of class time to lecture - style presentations than to group problem - solving activities.

Meanwhile, for those students for whom online education shines, we are starting to partner with schools and school systems to provide avenues to allow appropriate students to take their math classes from us rather than in a traditional classroom.

«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money on smaller classes has a greater impact on math achievement than spending on administration, school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

However, it also maintained that more than 60 per cent of secondary and 40 per cent of primary pupils are failing to reach work - class standards on writing, literacy, maths and science.

Art and photography courses, for instance, were filled with many more students than English and math classes.

In last month's segment, we presented an example of a teacher checking students» math during class time rather than taking the work home to be graded.

These analysts took advantage of the fact that the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS) not only tested a nationally representative sample of U.S. 8th graders in math and science, but also asked their teachers what percentage of class time was taken up by students «listening to lecture - style presentations» rather than either «working on problems with the teacher's guidance» or «working on problems without guidance.»

Getting into a charter school doubled the likelihood of enrolling in Advanced Placement classes (the effects are much bigger for math and science than for English) and also doubled the chances that a student will score high enough on standardized tests to be eligible for state - financed college scholarships.

Beatty, who has been using and studying CRS products for more than a decade, acknowledges that the language and purpose of the question cycle, which he says is «to form habits of mind and find the limits of knowledge,» sound more ivory tower than AP Bio, but he contrasts the current norm — the quick and shallow recall of facts required of American high school science and math students — with his larger objective: renouncing the myth of coverage, the idea that what a teacher covers in class matters.

Most also felt they were in control of their test scores: Only 28 % felt they would do poorly on a math test even if they studied for it and 62 % even said they would study harder than required for math classes.

With few exceptions, students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch and students of color in the 50 cities were less likely than more advantaged students to enroll in a high - scoring elementary and middle school, take advanced math classes in high school, and sit for the ACT / SAT.

The students spend less than half of the week studying math, reading, science and social studies; most of their class time is spent on religious instruction.

At Cohen High School, the proportion of students saying that they would switch to a different school if they could was 10 percentage points lower than in 2008 - 2009 (the year before reforms were implemented) and the percentage of students saying that they really like coming to their math classes was 7 percentage points higher.

A 2012 study found that middle school students who started class an hour later than usual saw their standardized test scores increase over 2 percentile points in math on average.

In English Language Arts, more than half of the class of 2016 is ready or conditionally ready for college work, and in math, 29 percent is ready or conditionally ready.

But now the school uses its academy freedoms to offer pupils more than 100 after - school classes - with everything from extra English and maths classes, to an orchestra, a choir, a debating club, Minecraft club and circus skills on offer.

According to an article in the Herald - Tribune, New state standards for students begin this year, «more than 20 percent of students who attend two - year colleges in Florida need remedial classes to boost skills in reading, English, or math that they should have mastered in high school.

This item is important, as the decrease in response suggests that preservice teachers became more aware of the value of eliciting and directly addressing students» misconceptions in class rather than assuming that correct instruction will overcome bad math habits.

The authors provided extensive data confirming that «If U.S. adolescents had a social class distribution that was similar to the distribution in countries to which the United States is frequently compared, average reading scores in the United States would be higher than average reading scores in the similar post-industrial countries we examined (France, Germany, and the United Kingdom), and average math scores in the United States would be about the same as average math scores in similar post-industrial countries... This re-estimate would improve the U.S. place in the international ranking of all OECD countries, bringing the U.S. average score to sixth in reading and 13th in math.»

According to recent SAT results from BVP's first class of juniors, BVP scholars were 91 % more likely than a typical Rhode Island junior to be college and career ready in both literacy and math.

Below is a link to brief 3 minute video of a billionaire designed Direct Instruction Kindergarten math curriculum in action (Warning: This video looks more like a military indoctrination boot camp than a Kindergarten class.

Credentialed teachers work with no more than 25 students to develop higher - order thinking skills in core classes, such as history, science, math, and reading.

And he is working to demonstrate that the quality of a public education is about more than how many AP classes one takes, now many community college courses a high schooler enrolls in over the summers, and how many extra hours of math a fourth grader «earns» by getting a slot in a prized G&T program.

As a result, the average class size in math and science at all levels is larger in California than in other states.

And so what we found in that was even though girls had comparable test scores to boys and had actually higher grades, as was mentioned earlier, higher grades in math and science than boys, that teachers were more likely to rate the class as easy for the boys and as more difficult for the girls.

However, what I found in my classes is that my weaker readers scored higher on the math test than many of the children who in their daily lives demonstrated greater understanding of math concepts.

More than 25 years ago, many low - income students weren't even given a chance to take algebra in high school, and instead took applied math classes on how to read schedules, take measurements and balance a checkbook.

In a system with a growing number of English - language learners and children from low - income families, the new funding will steer more resources to high - needs schools, beef up math and literacy efforts, and add more than 300 teachers to help reduce class sizes.

Students at Smith Leadership Academy, where math and science are taught in single - gender classes, often score lower than Boston public school students on the MCAS, and the state has labeled the academy for restructuring to fix persistently low scores.

My goal back then, as it is now, was for my students to like math more when they complete my class than they did when they began the...

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.