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The elephant in the truck: Retraining low-skilled workers | The Economist

The elephant in the truck: Retraining low-skilled workers | The Economist | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"IMAGINE YOU ARE a 45-year-old long-distance lorry driver. You never enjoyed school and left as soon as you could, with a smattering of qualifications and no great love of learning ..."

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When there's meaning in mathematical mistakes

When there's meaning in mathematical mistakes | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"What if instead of dismissing wrong answers as a sign of failure, maths teachers tried to understand how their pupils came to that answer and then guided them in the right direction?  ..."

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Maths app trial works on memory and the neuroplasticity of the brain

Maths app trial works on memory and the neuroplasticity of the brain | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Maths success is based on numeracy and working memory and an app being trialled at a Melbourne primary school, with Monash University neuroscientists' ..."

Tiffany Wheatley's curator insight, May 25, 2017 9:38 PM
Changing ways to teach maths for students is a great way to get them engaged in maths, I wonder what apps would be out there for High school aged children? Although this basic math app could assist students who have missed the basics in school for some reason? Could this be a back up tool for crash course learning to get up to speed with everyone else in the class?
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Counting the cost of national maths failure

Counting the cost of national maths failure | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"What's five times four? Geophysicist Peter Ridd was gobsmacked to see a first-year university student pull out a calculator to work out the no-brainer equation ..."

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