A student teacher at P.S. 59 was horrified when she was told to photocopy and distribute a fourth grade homework assignment with "Slavery Word Problems" where the questions were "On a slave ship, ...

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It’s around fourth grade that many youngsters become discouraged by math and begin to think of it as a subject they’re just not good at. Be aware of this and try to prevent your child from developing ...

The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2 (1997), pp. 183-226 (44 pages) A form of socially assisted group learning based on a modified version of reciprocal teaching for mathematics ...

Education professors have shown that a comprehension-based strategy can help English learners improve their math word-problem solving abilities. The approach boosts reading comprehension and problem ...