Math game developer Sokikon, for example, references U.S. Department of Education-funded research correlating its games to progress in test scores and motivation to learn math (up to 15% improvement in one Arizona classroom).
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Students spend up to two hours a day in a computer learning lab mastering basic math and reading skills through exercises and puzzles, freeing up teachers to spend their time on advanced skills and concepts.
The imbalance has been cause for the White House to encourage more young women to take up science and math in school.
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She hopes the extra time will help bring students up to their grade level in reading, vocabulary, math, science and life skills.
And that's why we'll invest in accelerated instruction in reading and math to help students who've fallen behind make up credits and ultimately graduate on time.
For Maria, that meant writing up a proposal for an accelerated math class, roping in 31 other students to take part, and then literally begging the principal to find the funding.
Perhaps, Mr. Cooke took his math classes with the same instructor who taught those other geniuses who want us to believe that the math in the Romney tax plan actually adds up.
Mr. MONTY NEILL (Co-Director, National Center for Fair and Open Testing): While scores have tended to go up on NAEP at grade four--and in math they went up fairly solidly for a while--they've now leveled out.
Some past winners have made an impact on their community by setting up a local food bank, designing a curriculum to get students interested in math, etc.
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Later an analysts job at technology start-up Telephia in Silicon Valley provided the opportunity to learn more about the intersection of math and the mobile business.
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When researchers in Germany did the math, they found that the average worker would need their income to go up by a third just to offset the happiness cost of tacking on a 20-minute commute.
Despite the faith in the freemium business model of a lot of my colleagues in Silicon Valley, the math does not add up, and that is why I ultimately decided not to embrace the freemium business model when I founded my company four years ago.
It set up a regimen of state reading and math tests for students in third through eighth grades, intended to identify failing schools.
He grew up in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of an elementary-school teacher and a math professor, went to nearby Fairfield University, and, like many good students, decided that he would go into medicine.
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