Tag: elementary
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In classrooms, fish hook students … on science
Elementary students become more interested in being scientists when their classrooms have live fish, a new study from Johns Hopkins has found.
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‘The Electromagnetic Spectrum Song’ rides a wave
Few songs that describe the gamut of the electromagnetic spectrum can compare to Emerson & Woo’s one, with 1.7 million views.
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School says kids picked up late will go to court
A school district in Oregon needs to apologize for a letter that threatens to send kids to court if their parents pick them up late.
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STEM night for parents at Lansdowne Elementary
Families faced an engineering challenge and met some cool reptiles at a Baltimore elementary school. The focus was on problem solving.
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Memorable math over spring break in Modesto
Spring-break camps make math memorable (and fun) for elementary students in Modesto, Calif. It takes some teachers who can think on their feet.
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Kids in East St Louis graph their progress in math
Some students in East St Louis, Ill., are learning how to make bar graphs by keeping track of their own progress on interim math tests given in their school.
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Congruent and similar polygons
A state department of education, as a question on the public-release form of a statewide standardized test, released a question to the public in which third graders have to identify congruent and similar polygons by visual inspection. Sometimes we have to determine whether a polygon is congruent or similar to another polygon just by looking…
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New multiplication: squares, diagonals, lattices
You may have noticed your child multiplying two- and three-digit numbers in a way that looks foreign to you. It’s called “lattice multiplication” and it’s really just a way of doing it that math teachers have developed for kids with sloppy handwriting. The old way of multiplying two- and three-digit numbers was to multiply first…
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What is a stem-and-leaf plot?
This post is directed at content developers, elementary math. I would like you to develop a Voxitatis tutorial on this topic to help parents explain elementary school mathematics to their children. The tutorial, when developed, may also help students who are struggling with the content described. The topic of the tutorial should be stem-and-leaf plots:…
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What is a fraction?
Update, 12 Nov 2012: Do you want to explore fractions rather than just read about them? We have developed interactive tools that allow students to explore and compare fractions with like and unlike denominators using graphical, visual models: Read about Using Fraction Wheels — Go straight to the tool Using fraction bars * A fraction…
