TERC workshops at the Cambridge Science Festival
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
TERC project workshops at the 10th anniversary Cambridge Science Festival were full and fun. Check out the projects that were represented this year.
Say It With Shapes and Numbers
Jugando juegos, construyendo torres, y contando cuentos … Todo con las matemáticas. (Play games, build towers, and tell stories—all with math!) Explore ways to mix the math of sizes, shapes, patterns, logic, and numbers into just about everything you do with projects and activities that mix in math. » Read more
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Productive Lingering: Elementary Students Learn about Structure of the Operations through Representation-based Argument (Spotlight Speaker)
Presenters: Susan Jo Russell (TERC)
April 13, 2016 at 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Abstract: Too often representations are passed over quickly, as if what they illustrate is obvious. What does it look like when grades 2-5 students spend focused time creating, comparing, and analyzing representations in order to understand the structure and behavior of the operations? Video examples from our research will be used to examine these questions
When the numbers are there, » Read more
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American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Friday, April 8 – Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Washington, DC
Snowballing as a methodological approach for research literature synthesis in education: Synthesizing literature on women of color in engineering.
Fri, April 8, 12:00 to 1:30pm | Convention Center, Level Three, Ballroom A
Presenters: Nuria Jaumot-Pascual, TERC; Maria (Mia) Ong, TERC; Lily Ko, TERC; Apriel K. Hodari, Council for Opportunity in Education
Few scholars share detailed methods for producing literature syntheses of qualitative research. » Read more
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:Ken Mayerken_mayer@terc.edu617.873.9670
Cambridge, MA — The TERC Board of Trustees announced today the permanent appointment of Laurie Brennan as TERC president. Brennan, a senior management leader at TERC for more than a decade, has been serving as interim president for the past 18 months.
“The Board is unanimous and confident we have the right person to move TERC forward in its mission to improve STEM education,” said Board Chair George Hein. » Read more
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TERC, Inc. is looking for students in grades 5-8 to test a prototype of a new, serious science game being designed to support independent, personalized learning of NGSS topics in Structure and Properties of Matter, Space Systems and other areas. As part of the game, students enter a virtual world as Avatars, where they can
do space/time travel,ask questions of expert Avatars (e.g., Albert Einstein), anduse what they learn to help them make strategic game choices. » Read more
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November 10, 2015
TERC has revised and enhanced its groundbreaking mathematics curriculum for adult learners. Now available from McGraw-Hill EMPower Plus builds the conceptual foundation necessary for students to succeed on the mathematics portion of high school equivalency exams, and teaches the math skills needed to excel in 21st century careers. To individualize the learning experience, educators can combine EMPower Plus with ALEKS, McGraw-Hill Education’s adaptive learning platform for math, to meet each learner where he or she needs to be met in order to develop their skills efficiently and effectively. » Read more
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