By Miles Hayford | 10/29/26 7:23pm Meagan Yackel, a parent of a William High School junior, said she has seen firsthand the struggles students are facing learning math in North Carolina schools right now. “I don’t think my son should have passed ninth…
Rick: Jeanne, you’re out with a new book, The Education Avengers. As a Marvel fan, I loved the title. What’s it about? Jeanne: The book includes 12 stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things because they saw children were being…
New research offers a closer look at the thinking skills that may help explain differences in math ability. Daniel Hajovsky, associate professor in the educational psychology department at Texas A&M University, studies human intelligence and the cognitive processes that…
Eye-tracking allows studying aspects that cannot be seen, for example, the thinking processes of a student solving a mathematical problem. Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) are the first in Lithuania to integrate eye-tracking into education and are using…
Half say the answer is 9, half insist it’s 1. What if they’re both right? In theory, a math problem involving four single digits and basic arithmetic—no algebraic functions, no variables, no exponents—should be easy for any high school graduate…
Aidan Humbert ’28 had always learned math from textbooks, where the problems come with answers. Last summer, he took on one that didn’t—and supplied the solution himself, making an important discovery about the mathematical concept of edge creeping. The project…
"How can we expect kids to have a sense of if they'll ever use math in the real world, or gain any experience in doing it, if we don't give them any opportunities to learn?," says William H. Schmidt. (Credit: Kimberly…
These ideas for prioritizing space—both physical and temporal—for science can help teachers give the subject the attention it deserves. It is helpful to envision the teaching and learning spaces in the classroom as multidimensional: physical (the actual classroom…
That’s why “Odd Squad” is not just a show about math, but a show full of humor and problem solving. When facing wacky situations, this group of kid agents “solve the odd” through teamwork and perseverance. They might be catching…
What should be kept constant? What can be said from the measurement results? When studying science, it is inevitable that you will worry about test scores.How many important terms have I memorized?How many pages of the workbook have…
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