Links from around the web about teaching and math practice for kids.
January 5, 2016
Apps for kids can provide a unique opportunity for social engagement, allowing children to collaborate with their parents or peers while learning.
Jane Waldfogel, one of the authors of Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective, discusses the problems that many children face growing up in the United States. Remarkably and troublingly,…
The over-politicization of math education is a major cause for United States students' ongoing struggles with math in school.
With appropriate instruction, math can be accessible to nearly every student.
Collaborative director Jennifer McCray reflects on the field of early math education.
Research from the University of Chicago published in Science journal suggests that the math app Bedtime Math can help bolster math confidence for both children and parents. Bedtime Math takes the routine of a nightly…
Dr. Linda Griffin, a former secondary math teacher who now works as a pre-service teacher educator, discusses some of her observations about the United States' consistently lukewarm feelings towards math. She argues that secondary math…
A new book, Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain, explains the importance of regularly talking with children ages 0-3—the time during which the brain develops most rapidly. Ensuring that these conversations take place will…
Mathematician Keith Devlin reflects on the use of video games in the classroom in his review of Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter.
A new study from the University of Chicago suggests that parents can easily transfer their math anxiety to their children.