Posts tagged with: math
Studying Young Minds, and How to Teach Them
— Findings from recent research in cognitive neuroscience are helping to clarify when young brains are best able to grasp fundamental concepts. more
Psyched Out By Stereotypes: Research Suggests Thinking About The Positive
— Coincidentally, this reinforces a view expressed in a SmartBean article earlier today, about the negative effect of myths and stereotypes on girls’ interest and ability in math in middle... more
Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss
by Danica McKellar
Read this SmartBean article on the STEM gender gap and watch an interview with TV actress-turned-author Danica McKellar as she describes her efforts to deal with this issue. more
Girls & Math: Shattering the Stereotype
— There are several initiatives underway devoted to promoting an interest in STEM among girls in the US. Actress Danica McKellar, now also a Math author and education activist for girls is doing her bit. Her books are a hit with girls in middle school! more
A “Scratchy” Problem
— Here is a cool video posing a specific problem in an animation created in "Scratch". The video outlines a few different ways kids can approach tackling the problem and ways to use it in a learning context. more
Time travel anyone? … and let’s build a pyramid while we’re at it
"Time Engineers" is an interesting computer simulation game for kids between the ages of 7-17. The premise is novel - the kids travel back in time to solve engineering problems in three different eras. Science and Math concepts are woven into the playing of the game. more
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folk Tale
by Demi
An exquisite tale set in India that brings home to kids the wonder of numbers, and the power of doubling a number. Use grains or other counters along with this... more
Reading, Math Software Found to Have Little Effect on Scores
A new U.S. federal study looks at the difference made by educational software for math and language, and finds that the answer is, surprisingly, … “not much”.
Not surprisingly though,... more
