Sentences with phrase «writing and math become»

As the child becomes increasingly able to work on an abstract level, reading, writing and math become tools for learning about the world.

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Since retiring in 2016, Kelly wrote a memoir last year about his year in space called «Endurance,» and he's become an advocate for improving science and math education in the United States.

Goal To teach observation, investigation, and presentation skills using integrated curricula to become more aware of natural phenomena in neighborhood and school environments and how to use science, math, geography, and oral / written descriptive language to study, record, and share environmental information and understanding.

Students become math detectives that need to solve inverse functions, written and visual, if they are to complete the mystery.

Fifth Graders Soar in the Blogosphere Across the curriculum, Gillian Ryan asks her fifth graders to respond in writing to the topics they discuss — whether in math, science, social studies, or language arts — and their ideas become posts to classroom blogs.

Physics of Learning Doug Smith was an engineer before he became a teacher and writes about science education, math curriculum, and thoughts on effective instruction.

Gonzalez became a Common Core expert through her work writing test questions for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which developed the standardized tests in math and English language arts administered to California students in grades 3 - 8 and 11 each spring.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

Children will be taught math, science, language arts, social studies and more, following an established curriculum as they would in a traditional school, but are taught in a foreign language, in which they will also become fluent in reading and writing.

«As math has become more about talking, arguing and writing, it's beginning to require these kinds of cultural resources that depend on something besides school,» said Deborah L. Ball, dean of the school of education at the University of Michigan.

Those who score at Level 3 are deemed «conditionally ready» and will be encouraged to take an approved English class, including the CSU - designed Expository Reading and Writing, or math class above Algebra II in their high school senior year and earn a grade of C or higher to become exempt from having to take placement tests.

Ms. Miranda said her daughter had done well in math, but struggled with reading and writing and, over time, became discouraged.

She encouraged teachers to substitute books, writing assignments, and math games for worksheets; and lessons slowly became more engaging.

Collaboration between specialist teachers and classroom teachers in other core subjects such as math, history and writing, has become the norm at WSD.

Since then, the garden has become a focal point of school life, used by geometry students who apply math to building projects, by English students to write poetry, by environmental science classes to study sustainable agriculture and irrigation.