They found that students assigned to teachers who used more mathematical vocabulary in their lessons made greater progress ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

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Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Work on identifying sight words. Count, read and write numbers to 20. OBJECTIVE: In this lesson, students listen to sounds in words and work on identifying sight words with Mrs. Forth. Mrs. Williams ...

Mathematics and writing might seem worlds apart, but literacy in both subjects might need some improvements when they come together. Whether you love math or find it challenging, incorporating writing ...

Does math make you a little nervous? You're in the majority. The phrase "number anxiety" was first coined by researchers back in the 1950s. By some estimates, as high as 93 percent of Americans feel ...

Nineteenth-century German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss used to joke that he could calculate before he could talk. Maybe it was no joke. Recent work casts doubt on the notion that language ...