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10+ STEM Inspiring Contests & Challenges
The science fair has been around for decades. Yet, today the science fair has evolved to give students and adults multiple expressions of STEM talent. Here, we've compiled more than 10 STEM challenges and contests for you and your students.
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MIND Launches ST Math Touch for Tablets to Help Students Learn Math Visually
Paul Blair at MIND Research Institute tells Advocacy Partner Getting Smart about its new ST Math Touch for tablet computers. ST Math helps students learn math concepts with visual-spatial reasoning. Research has shown that ST Math improves math comprehension and understanding.
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Blending Math Games Gets Big Results in Big Trials
MIND Research Institute, an southern California nonprofit, developed an innovative way to teach math—and it works. Trials involving almost 60,000 students indicate that it typically doubles math gains. They use visual games that all involve moving a penguin named Jiji across the screen. It’s all done without a word of instruction. The visual approach works for visual learners, students new to English, or students experiencing reading difficulties—in other words, it works for most kids.
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Infographic: The Math-Science Shortage
Studies, reports and more over most recent years have stated that we have a shortage STEM graduates to fill the growing demand of jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. OnlineEngineeringDegree.com published an infographic recently on “The Math-Science Shortage,” which looks at the reasons why the United States is failing…
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MIND Research Institute Releases BigSeed for iPad
MIND Research Institute, the creator of math game ST Math, announced today that it released "Big Seed" for iPad to the iTunes Store. "Big Seed" is the first multistep-thinking game with ST Math's famous Jiji the penguin.
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Top 10+ Free & Cheap Math Learning Apps
Lately, we've taken an interest in math games or simulations for increased math learning. Students and parents today can download countless smartphone and tablet apps to increase basic math skills. Today, we've compiled ten math learning apps that are worth a try!
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How the Best Math Software Avoids the Worst Teaching Mistakes
Like many of us in the education community, my first year of teaching was a disaster. Five periods of Algebra I with 10th and 11th graders at an urban Los Angeles high school was a tough start, and on top of it I made pretty much every mistake in the book. Classroom management was one thing, but the bigger frustration was that I knew I was making no headway in actually teaching math to my students.
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Infographic: Does America Have the Right Stuff?
Knewton recently published an infographic on STEM Education in the U.S. It poses the question: Does American have the right stuff to produce to the next Pete Conrad, Steve Jobs and others? At the rate we're going with our STEM Education approach, the infographic implies that the answer is simply - no.
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Houston Schools Increase Proficiency With Math Games
MIND Research Institute, a non-profit neuroscience and education researcher, announced this week that eight Houston-area schools using MIND's visual math game ST Math® achieved substantial increases in math proficiency this last year.
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Teaching Math Without Words—And Getting Big Gains
Mathematical thinking is a problem-solving skill but we use a lot of abstract symbols and words to try to teach kids math procedures. Just look at a textbook or observe a middle school classroom. Our text-based approach works for some students but is confusing and complicated for too many,…