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Making math talks your classroom’s superpower

Math talks and structured routines are becoming a go-to strategy for boosting student engagement and deepening understanding in upper elementary classrooms. By creating predictable, interactive spaces ...
The Hechinger Report

A little parent math talk with kids might really add up

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Phys.org

Parents' math-related talk relates to children's early academic skills

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think. This is what Assistant Professor Yemimah King discovered in her research on how parents' word usage is related ...
The Hechinger Report

PROOF POINTS: A little parent math talk with kids might really add up, a new body of education research suggests

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CNN

Encouraging kids to talk to themselves could help their math scores

It’s widely accepted that teachers and parents should praise the effort kids make – rather than praise their innate ability – if they want their students and children to be successful. Similarly, a ...
Education Week

Anxiety Can Make Kids Avoid Math. Here’s How They Can Talk Through the Fear

To increase the number of students entering math and science fields, it’s not enough for them to perform well in math. They have to enjoy it enough to make it a big part of their lives. New research ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach math? In Part One, Cindy Garcia, Danielle Ngo, Patrick Brown, and Andrea Clark shared ...
Daily Herald

‘Math talk’: Wheaton teacher uses visuals, language to educate multilingual learners

Being a teacher doesn’t mean guiding one person, it means finding a way to equally educate dozens of children with different backgrounds, and possibly languages. Middle school math teacher Amanda Yost ...
The Conversation

5 ways parents can help children with the ‘new’ math

In his March 2021 Netflix special, comedian Nate Bargatze complains about having to teach his kids a confusing “new math” based on standards known as the Common Core. “The goal of Common Core is to ...
Psychology Today

More Than Just Counting: The Power of 'Math Talk' at Home

I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Math Walking Trail in Cambridge

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