Meet India’s 14-year-old ‘human calculator’ who broke 6 Guinness World Records—boost your mental math with these 5 tips
A 14-year-old math prodigy from India, Aaryan Shukla, broke six Guinness World Records in 24 hours with his lightning-fast ...
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The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting
The higher-income students also had more basic math facts committed to memory ... fourth grade math teacher Catherine Schwartz was walking students through a complicated subtraction problem with big ...
McCloskey: Education is broken. Don’t defund education
Some continue to argue it’s all about teachers’ pay, and that may be part of it. But our nation’s leading education economist ...
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The Building Blocks of Math Students Need to Excel
Fluency in understanding numbers and their relationships to one another is crucial in mastering more complex numbers later in ...
Opinion | Numbers Don’t Lie: How Weak Arithmetic Skills Undermine India’s Future
ASER 2024 findings are a national wake-up call. A failure to address India’s arithmetic crisis today will result in an ...
Santa Monica Daily Press2d
Gutted courses, fewer majors, faculty layoffs: Who will feel Cal State’s 8% budget cut?
For all the math taught at college, the California State University system is stumped over an arithmetics problem it has less ...
The Indian Express2d
Indian schools treat math skills picked up at home: Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo
What schools are trying to teach is for people to do division, subtraction, etc ... which is the understanding and ability to apply school math. What it does not measure is the fact that some kids ...
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Why So Many Students Struggle With Math Anxiety—and How to Help
Math anxiety holds students back from reaching their potential. Experts share insights on the problem and strategies to combat it.
Why more WA students are learning math on laptops
The latest results from the biannual National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card, show ...