Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

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Students often start working on a task, but disengage if it gets difficult. You can use these three tips to encourage them to persist.

The more we think about math instruction, the more we see math in nearly every moment of every day. We want students to see the many ways that math can show up in their lives, especially beyond their ...

Growing up is hard work. All kids navigate pressures like friendships, family relationships, and school. But difficulties can be compounded for children who are neurodivergent—those whose brains think ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Instead of passively receiving information, engaged students actively process, apply, and reflect. They think, talk, question, explain their thinking, justify their reasoning, and collaborate with ...

Teachers hear these frustrating words often, and while we may have been tempted in recent years to blame technology use and increasingly short attention spans, these familiar complaints usually signal ...

Every teacher knows the scenario: a student (or students!) who always seems to finish ahead of schedule. How do you keep them from needing your attention, distracting other students, or being bored ...

On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dynamic visual explanations, a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to see how formulas, variables, and mathematical relationships change in real time. Instead of just ...