New learning approach: Students talk through the math
For most, thoughts of early math lessons conjure images of number lines, multiplication tables and memorization. But a few teachers at West Elementary School are trying a new approach: talking it ...
Schools in India treat math skills picked up at home and in classrooms as different: Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo
Findings of a new study published in Nature journal show that working children excel at market calculations but struggle with ...
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Our Schools Have a Problem: Textbook Math Doesn’t Help in Real Life — and Vice Versa
For decades, educators have assumed that learning arithmetic in school helps students solve real-world problems. Yet, a new study published in Nature by a team of researchers including Nobel laureates ...
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Schools failing to teach students to apply math in real-world settings, study reveals
A study published in the journal Nature yesterday, Wednesday, February 5, 2025, titled Children’s Arithmetic Skills Do Not Transfer Between Applied and Academic Math, reveals that Indian teaching ...