Educators honored with Presidential Awards for excellence in mathematics and science teaching
Local teachers were honored with the highest award K-12 math and science teachers can receive from the U.S. government.
Education reformers push Wisconsin lawmakers to raise the bar for reading, math
Calls continue at the Wisconsin Capitol to change back the state’s education standards. Reform groups lined up at the ...
Making distance learning work from home
Life is a bit different these days in the rural Hutchinson Schroeder household. Kyle Schroeder is a math teacher at Hutchinson High School, and two of his children are kindergartners, meaning that ...
Teachers Plead for Help From Parents as Kids Fall Behind in Reading
After the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers noted a stark drop in both reading and math scores among students of all ages.
Brain Teaser: Channel Your Inner Srinivasa Ramanujan – Spot the Odd Number in Just 9 Seconds!
Do you have the problem-solving skills of a mathematical genius? This brain teaser will test your ability to think fast and ...
The Prototype: Math Suggests The Eagles Will Go On Fourth Down During The Super Bowl
Plus: A constellation of data-gathering balloons, an asteroid may strike the Earth next decade and how to perfectly boil an ...
Teacher of the Year: Kristina Myers making math more than just numbers
Kristina Myers has been teaching math at Cienega High School for 15 years and she recognized the need to give students life ...
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The Wild and Contentious History of Mathematical Symbols
I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...
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$3 Trillion of Dynamic Feedback is Fantasy Math
The $3 trillion of claimed dynamic feedback is 14 times as large as the average estimate of $213 billion. Producing $3 ...
What’s a degree day? Do the math and your veggie crops, blooms, will soon thank you
Nearly all gardeners have tales of how their once-pristine crops came to be ravaged by an onslaught of insects.
Schools in India treat math skills picked up at home and formal learning as different: Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo
Findings of a new study published in Nature journal show that working children excel at market calculations but struggle with textbook problems in Indian schools, while children in schools work well ...
Local NDSU student assists with record-breaking Math-In
The North Dakota State University Math Club helped a record number of students prepare for fall semester finals. One of the student tutors for the fall 2012 Math-In was Alexandra Ringhofer, of ...