Revolutionary Teaching Method Challenges Notions of ‘Bad Math Students, Math, News – Discover How a Mathematician’s Innovative Approach is Transforming –
Mathematics is an infamously difficult discipline for a large number of children or adult learners. There is an overall wide gender divide and the gap between races, difference in races and generally poor performance across numerous countries.
John Mighton, a Canadian playwright, author and math tutor who had a hard time with math for himself He has developed a math curriculum for teaching that’s got the math students who are performing well and even enjoying math. There’s evidence mounting that this method is effective for children of all abilities.
The programme, JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) Math is being utilized by more than 15,000 children across 8 US States (it is in line to the Common Core), more than 150,000 across Canada and around 12,000 students in Spain. In 2012, the US Department of Education found that it was promising enough to grant an $2.75 million funding grant for 2012.
Tracy Solomon and Rosemary Tannock Cognitive scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children as well as The University of Toronto, to conduct a controlled, randomized study of 1,100 children in 40 class rooms.
The findings, due in the coming months, are expected to confirm work they conducted in 2010 that showed that students in 18 classes who were using JUMP were twice as quick on a variety of tests for math that are standardized in comparison to students receiving standard education in the other 11 classrooms.
“It is difficult in a way to link these improvements to anything other than the teaching since we went to great lengths to ensure that students and teachers were treated equally, with the exception of the type of instruction they received.” Solomon said.
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