Fla. elementary-school students learn math at grocery store A group of Florida elementary-school students practiced their math skills during a recent field trip to a local grocery store, where their parents joined them. Fruit and other produce were used to construct real-world word problems, and students used their estimation skills to calculate their final bills. "This is good for me because I'm learning about decimals ..." said fourth-grader Gianna Fangio. Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.) (3/6) Wyo. students build sleds to learn math, other skills Middle-school students in Wyoming recently practiced math and other core subjects while constructing box sleds out of cardboard and duct tape. In math class, the students used graph paper to design their sleds, calculating the surface area of the sled before building models out of shoe boxes in science class. The students raced their sleds in the Box Sled Challenge. Buffalo Bulletin (Wyo.) (3/6) Other News  | Try Lexia Reading Core5 FREE!
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 | Ill. school district considers common core math materials An Illinois school district may spend $1.5 million on new math materials over the next five years to align the curriculum with the Common Core State Standards. The money would help with the purchase of 70 iPads as well as print and digital resources. The books are on display for public review, and the school board is expected to make a decision by mid-April. The Beacon News (Aurora, Ill.) (3/6) Other News  |
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 | Ohio hopes to work out kinks with online exams Hundreds of school districts in Ohio will soon field test new, online standardized tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Officials say the tests, which begin March 24, are intended to help work out any kinks associated with the online exams. Students who participate will not be graded. StateImpact/Ohio (3/5) | Pa. district receives grant, establishes plan to close achievement gap A Pennsylvania school district has received an $82,000 grant from the Heinz Endowments to close the achievement gap between white students and their African-American peers. The district plans to begin with a small pilot group among K-4 students and eventually expand to other grades. The focus will be on training, after-school and summer programming, continuity in learning and on reaching out to African-American leaders within the community for support. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (3/6) | Teacher characteristics and student mathematical dispositions  | | (NCTM) | Although providing teachers with more mathematics or math education courses may improve their mathematical and pedagogical knowledge, it will not necessarily influence their beliefs and awareness, according to a study in the March 2014 issue of the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education. Learn more.
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