A beautiful landscape painting, a beautiful piano sonata — art and music are almost exclusively described in terms of aesthetics, but what about math? Beyond useful or brilliant, can an abstract idea be considered beautiful? Yes, actually — and not just by mathematicians, reports a new study in Cognition. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]
Study shows we like our math like we like our art: Beautiful Read More »
Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to the latest findings from the National Study of Learning Mindsets published in Nature on Aug. 7. The experimental study involved more than 12,000 ninth
A multi-national European study, looking at over 5,500 students, has found that a novel school intervention program can not only improve the mathematics scores of primary school children from disadvantaged areas, but can also lessen the achievement gap caused by socioeconomic status. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]
Novel school improvement program can raise teaching quality while reducing inequality Read More »
When preschool teachers read books in their classrooms, the questions they ask play a key role in how much children learn, research has shown. But a new study that involved observing teachers during class story times found that they asked few questions – and those that they did ask were usually too simple. Läs mer
Preschool teachers ask children too many simple questions Read More »
Researchers from the Centre for Mathematical Research (CRM) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have mathematically described the frequency of several dangerous phenomena according to their size with more precision than ever. Using new statistical tools, researchers have rigorously demonstrated how the frequency of earthquakes, hurricanes, torrential rains and meteorite impacts can be described with
Earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters obey same mathematical pattern Read More »
UNIGE researchers have shown that our general knowledge about the world interferes with our ability to solve basic mathematical problems, even among experts in the field. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]
Expert mathematicians stumped by simple subtractions Read More »
The Ministry of Education in France introduced a policy in 2002 that reduced class size to no more than 12 pupils in areas determined to have social difficulties and high proportions of at-risk pupils, called Zones d’Education Prioritaire (ZEP). In order to evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of this policy, researcher Jean Ecalle and colleagues
Small class size vs. evidence-based interventions Read More »
45 skolor i skolor i Stockholms stad samarbetar så att alla elever i årskurs 4–9 som inte når målen i ett eller flera ämnen, eller gymnasiebehörighet i årskurs 9, erbjuds sommarskola. Ambitiösa och hårt arbetande elever, så beskriver läraren Thomas Arvidsson sina elever på Blackebergs gymnasieskola. Läs mer [Pedagog Stockholm]
Sommarskolan – en chans att komma ikapp Read More »
The positive effects of a rich home learning environment during a child’s early years continue into adolescence and help improve test scores later in life, according to a new study published in School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Läs mer [EurekAlert!])
Good home learning in early years boosts secondary school achievements Read More »
If you made any plans for next week, congratulations! You’ve demonstrated a key feature of being human: being able to think beyond the here and now – or, think abstractly. But when babies learn different kinds of abstract thought, and how, is still hotly debated by psychologists. Now new research published in the Proceedings of
Culture shapes how we learn to reason? Read More »
