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När skolorna börjar igen i Eskilstuna ska en majoritet av eleverna i årskurs ett få undervisning i matte på ett helt nytt sätt. Ett forskningsbaserat läromedel har tagits fram av projektet Framtidens läromedel vid Mälardalens högskola. Metoden ger ett tydligt stöd till lärarna. Läs vidare [Sveriges Radio]

Elever som behöver extra stöd i svenska och matematik ska få det redan i förskoleklass. Det är en del i läsa, skriva och räkna-garantin som infördes vid halvårsskiftet. Läs vidare [Värmlands Folkblad]

Bokrecension Susan Moore Johnson has spent a lifetime studying teachers in their workplaces. In her new book, Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success, she helps us understand more about how context matters. To emphasize the central importance of the environment of schools for teachers, when the research team “compared schools demographically similar, we found

A new report from the Oklahoma Department of Education confirmed that that state has lost 30,000 teachers in the past six years, a significant number in a state that employs a total of only 41,000 teachers. Response to teacher flight in Oklahoma, as in other states, has focused on finding warm bodies to fill classrooms,

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!]

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!]

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

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

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!]