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Seattle School Breaks Down Language Barrier to Improve Math Proficiency

Personalizing and engaging students in math is an ongoing challenge in schools across the country. In Washington State, where countless organizations are working diligently to improve access to quality math learning for students’ futures, some schools are implementing a blended learning math program that draws upon g...

5 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Training Future Surgeons—With Videogames?

Researchers have found that high school- and college-age gamers are better virtual surgeons than medical residents, reports Colin Lecher on the Popular Science website.

5 months ago by Guest Author

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Q&A: Teacher Turned Game Designer Shares Lessons From The Biggest Story Problem

The Biggest Story Problem, a independent documentary film aimed at examining the decline in math proficiency in the U.S. with global solutions, releases this year. The team at Imagine Education, a multimedia group capturing stories in education, dove into the decline of math learning in schools across the country.

6 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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System Upgrade: What Math Can Do For You

“Why do we have to learn Algebra?” was the question a student asked me one day in the middle of class. I hadn’t been teaching very long so I wasn’t entirely sure what to say. I tried to ignore it but he asked again so I came up with some lame reasons like, “you’ll need it later,” or, “lots of jobs use a...

6 months ago by Nigel Nisbet

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Teaching Without Words: A Conversation With Researcher Matthew Petersen

Matthew Petersen is an extremely smart person who as a child struggled with dyslexia and the way he was taught in the traditional school system—a system that focuses on words and numbers.

7 months ago by Jonathan Wai

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Google Ventures Backs Math Education Startup Desmos

Google Ventures joined investors Kapor Capital, Learn Capital, Kinder Capital, and Elm Street Ventures today in funding more than $1 million for hiring, growth, and expansion of Desmos, Inc., an education technology company devoted to inspiring and engaging the next generation of math students.

7 months ago by Getting Smart Staff

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Wiley & Knewton Partner to Offer Knewton Math Readiness Course

Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced a partnership with the learning technology company Knewton to offer the Knewton Math Readiness course throughout Australia and New Zealand.

8 months ago by Getting Smart Staff