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Talk nerdy to me: Teachers who use math vocabulary help students do better in math

Using words like ‘factors,’ ‘denominators’ and ‘multiples’ may be part of a constellation of good math teaching practices ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: Many high school math teachers cobble together their own instructional materials from the internet and elsewhere, a survey finds

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The Bulletin

Data science v algebra II: Educators debate what math classes high school students need

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning in December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School was anything but quiet. Students chatted about the data analysis they performed on ...
Los Angeles Times

I only took three years of high school math, escaped with a ‘D’ and turned out OK

I’ve never managed to master much beyond the nuts and bolts of math. I was an honor student who could ace almost every subject, but ninth-grade geometry tripped me up. I slipped through with a C, but ...
Education Week

A Third of Students Don’t Identify as a ‘Math Person.’ Can Teachers Change That?

Are you a “math person”? It’s a question that gets settled at an early age: Most students have made up their mind about whether they identify as a math person by the time they’re in middle school, ...
The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore’s math scores consistently trail Maryland’s. Here’s city schools’ 5-year plan for improvement.

When Baltimore’s chief academic officer and other school officials saw the stark results of a state standardized math exam in the summer of 2022, they set a plan to overhaul how students learn math.
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See how new NC math standards could change the classes high school students take

North Carolina is overhauling its math standards, with major changes potentially coming to the courses students take in high school. The state Department of Public Instruction presented Thursday the ...
Los Angeles Times

Modern high school math should be about data science — not Algebra 2

Thanks to the information revolution, a stunning 90% of the data created by humanity has been generated in just the past two years. Yet the math taught in U.S. schools hasn’t materially changed since ...