Students from the United States, meanwhile, came in seventeenth in reading, twenty-third in science, and an especially demoralizing thirty-first in math.
In 2010, the school ranked first in its county in student performance in math and reading and ranked among the top 10 percent of all Arizona charter schools.
In traditional math contests, whoever completes the task first in the time frame wins.
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Kindergarteners and first graders received instruction in literacy and math.
Ten cities have volunteered for the comparative study in math since the exam was first given in 2003.
She first grew interested in the subject after working as a high-school math teacher.
Brown and Mr. Smith both teach a classroom of third graders who score at the fiftieth percentile on math and reading tests on the first day of school, in September.
The team conducted a review of alternative math programs, and Harlem Academy soon became the first school in Manhattan and one of the first in New York to use Singapore Mathematics in its core curriculum.
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Eighty-five percent of those students were the first in their family to do so. (Applause.) Your math and science scores are consistently higher than other Boston schools, and the attendance rate here is 94 percent.
Thanks to the actions of this Congress last year, we will soon have for the very first time a voluntary national test based on national standards in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math.
The Seattle district requires teachers to give the math and reading Measures of Academic Progress exam, or MAP, to students in first through ninth grade two or three times a year.
His first choice was architecture, but the counselor didn't think Mr. Kane was strong enough in science and math and steered him instead toward industrial design.
First, their children are better educated than American children in the STEM fields -- science, technology, engineering and math.
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