Bob Benjamin is an ORHS Class of 1983 alumnus who has tirelessly worked to figure out what the Milky Way looks like.
Purdue basketball is putting up impressive statistics. In schools, those stats are being used to expand students' math skills ...
Informal classes over WhatsApp and Facebook groups are helping freelancers and business owners learn basic AI skills.
Picture a budget meeting at a government agency or a boardroom in a multinational firm. A generative AI system has drafted a ...
Individualized learning has its place. But decades of educational research is also clear that learning is a social endeavor at its core. Classrooms that privilege personalized AI chatbots overlook ...

Math not mathing

The latest NAEP results show eighth-grade math scores are flat — a bad sign after the historic eight-point drop in 2022.
Each year, the Illinois State Board of Education releases an annual report card with data showing how students are doing in the basic subjects of reading, writing and math. And each year when those ...
Some ag lenders are helping young producers and beginning farmers develop stronger financial skills so they can make more ...
When Mike Kenny was a fifth-grade teacher in Essex Junction, he learned early in his career that the traditional way to teach math, which includes repetitive practice of math problems, did not work ...
Far too many students enter math class expecting to fail. For them, math isn’t just a subject–it’s a source of anxiety that chips away at their confidence and makes them question their abilities. A ...
Struggly is a gamified online math supplement that encourages and rewards student persistence, creativity, and strategy in solving digital math puzzles. Aimed at students in grades preK-8, Struggly’s ...