http://www.mail.com/subjects/19340-math-science-education.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/19340-math-science-education.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2105258-report-nations-kids-to-physical.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting at least an hour o... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:20:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2105258-report-nations-kids-to-physical.html 2013-05-23T15:20:09Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2089080-charges-teen-explosion-fla-school.html A central Florida teenager who was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds — and who became the subject of a grassroots social media campaign on her behalf — will not face criminal charges, authorities said Wednesday. Polk County State Attorney Jerry Hill wrote in a statement that the case against 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot has been dismi... Thu, 16 May 2013 01:05:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2089080-charges-teen-explosion-fla-school.html 2013-05-16T01:05:30Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2067094-to-start-tests-digitally.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Goodbye, No. 2 pencils. Hello, iPads. Starting as early as spring 2015, the ACT college admissions exam will go digital, reflecting students' tech savvy and the demand for quicker results. The tests will still have the familiar multiple-choice options for college hopefuls but they will also expand to include interactive portions, such as... Mon, 06 May 2013 21:33:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2067094-to-start-tests-digitally.html 2013-05-06T21:33:31Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2061134-kazakh-man-linked-to-boston-suspect-normal-teen.html ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Former teachers of one of the students from Kazakhstan arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings described him on Friday as an easygoing teenager who distinguished himself mainly by his failing grades in math and science. Dias Kadyrbayev was a university friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He and another 1... Fri, 03 May 2013 18:59:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2061134-kazakh-man-linked-to-boston-suspect-normal-teen.html 2013-05-03T18:59:30Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2055320-alan-alda-wants-scientists-to-cut-jargon.html STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Among the procedures Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce performed on "M.A.S.H." was an end-to-end anastomosis. Most of the viewers, actor Alan Alda concedes, had no idea he was talking about removing a damaged piece of intestine and reconnecting the healthy pieces. Today, the award-winning film and television star is on a mission to teac... Wed, 01 May 2013 07:24:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2055320-alan-alda-wants-scientists-to-cut-jargon.html 2013-05-01T07:24:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2045166-culture-war-israel-targets-ultra-orthodox-jews.html JERUSALEM (AP) — A cultural war has erupted between Israel's rising political star and his ultra-Orthodox rivals. Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing preferential treatment enjoyed by the religious minority, is moving swiftly to slash state handouts to large families, compel lifelong seminary students to... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:18:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2045166-culture-war-israel-targets-ultra-orthodox-jews.html 2013-04-25T21:18:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2040982-30-years-later-nation-remains-educational-risk.html WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren't adept at new technology. America's economy will suffer if schools don't step up their game. "A Nation at Risk," the report issued 30 years ago by President Ronald Reagan's Education Department, was meant as a wake-up call for the country. It spelled out wher... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:35:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2040982-30-years-later-nation-remains-educational-risk.html 2013-04-24T07:35:34Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039754-obama-salutes-national-teacher-year.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama honored finalists Tuesday for the 2013 National Teacher of the Year award and saluted the winner, a Washington state teacher credited with improving science enrollment at his high school. The winner is Jeff Charbonneau, a science teacher at Zillah High School in Washington state's Yakima Valley. Obama also made spe... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:00:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2039754-obama-salutes-national-teacher-year.html 2013-04-23T20:00:38Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2038580-atlanta-schools-work-to-help-kids-left.html ATLANTA (AP) — Long after the school day ends, nearly half the students enrolled at Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta spend an extra four hours in class looking to hone their math and reading skills by using such items as a deck of cards for subtraction problems and staplers and crayons to practice taking measurements. While this Atlanta public school w... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:53:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2038580-atlanta-schools-work-to-help-kids-left.html 2013-04-23T08:53:50Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2037206-obama-pedals-bike-3rd-white-house-science-fair.html WASHINGTON (AP) — It was an offer President Barack Obama couldn't refuse. "You're welcome to try this out if you like," the Oakland Park, Fla., high school student said. With that, a president who often laments a lifestyle that denies him the pleasure of driving eagerly hopped on the blue-and-silver bicycle in his dark blue suit and pedaled away, never mi... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:40:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2037206-obama-pedals-bike-3rd-white-house-science-fair.html 2013-04-22T21:40:21Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2037606-us-teens-better-than-public-realizes-survey.html WASHINGTON (AP) — American teenagers aren't doing as poorly on international science tests as adults think. Despite the misconception, people don't think the subject should get greater emphasis in schools, a survey released Monday found. More Americans than not wrongly think that U.S. 15-year-olds rank near the bottom on international science tests, accor... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:26:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2037606-us-teens-better-than-public-realizes-survey.html 2013-04-22T20:26:26Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1978302-early-number-sense-plays-role-math-skills.html WASHINGTON (AP) — We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later on. The findings have specialists considering steps that p... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:19:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1978302-early-number-sense-plays-role-math-skills.html 2013-03-26T07:19:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1962728-decade-criticism-student-grouping-rises.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Teachers say they are grouping students of similar abilities with each other inside classrooms and schools are clustering pupils with like interests together — a practice once frowned upon — according to a review of federal education surveys. The Brookings Institution report released Monday shows a dramatic increase in both ability group... Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:09:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1962728-decade-criticism-student-grouping-rises.html 2013-03-18T22:09:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1950620-villanovas-vatican-interns-view-history.html PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Talk about a baptism by fire: On the first day of Lauren Colegrove's journalism internship at Catholic News Service in Rome, the pope announced his resignation. The Villanova University junior thought she'd spend her first day filling out paperwork and undergoing orientation. Instead, she ran over to the Vatican Press Office to attend ... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:29:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1950620-villanovas-vatican-interns-view-history.html 2013-03-13T20:29:05Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1949544-titles-matter-high-school-math.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Advanced or intermediate algebra? Honors or basic geometry? When it comes to high school math, the labels may not really matter — or necessarily predict what's in the textbook. Those revelations are part of the Education Department's new study of high school math courses, released Tuesday. During their review of almost 18,000 high school... Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:55:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1949544-titles-matter-high-school-math.html 2013-03-12T19:55:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1934882-schools-shift-textbooks-to-tablets.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks. Welcome to the new digital bookcase, where traditional ink-and-paper textbooks have given way to iPads and book bags are getting lighter. Publishers update students' books almost in... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:55:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1934882-schools-shift-textbooks-to-tablets.html 2013-03-06T16:55:58Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1926580-budget-cuts-to-hit-military-school-districts.html FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Public schools everywhere will be affected by the government's automatic budget cuts, but few may feel the funding pinch faster than those on and around military bases. School districts with military ties from coast-to-coast are bracing for increased class sizes and delayed building repairs. Others already have axed sports teams an... Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1926580-budget-cuts-to-hit-military-school-districts.html 2013-03-02T08:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1918144-ohio-court-spars-with-lawyers-school-bible-case.html COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — State Supreme Court justices sparred with lawyers on Wednesday in a heated hour of arguments over the extent to which a now-fired public school science teacher had the right to push his religious beliefs in class. A lawyer for the school board that dismissed John Freshwater in 2011 said he waved a Bible at his students, handed out re... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:35:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1918144-ohio-court-spars-with-lawyers-school-bible-case.html 2013-02-27T22:35:39Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1918310-colleges-classes-genetics-personal.html IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Bakir Hajdarevic didn't have to study for the most important test in a class last fall. He just had to spit — a lot. The 19-year-old freshman at the University of Iowa took an honors seminar on personal genetics in which students had the option of sending saliva samples so a testing company could use DNA to unlock some of their most... Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:37:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1918310-colleges-classes-genetics-personal.html 2013-02-27T08:37:37Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1907684-sd-college-tests-fingerprint-purchasing-technology.html RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Futurists have long proclaimed the coming of a cashless society, where dollar bills and plastic cards are replaced by fingerprint and retina scanners smart enough to distinguish a living, breathing account holder from an identity thief. What they probably didn't see coming was that one such technology would make its debut not in Si... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:14:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1907684-sd-college-tests-fingerprint-purchasing-technology.html 2013-02-22T14:14:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849928-teachers-flip-flipped-learning-class-model.html SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — When Timmy Nguyen comes to his pre-calculus class, he's already learned the day's lesson — he watched it on a short online video prepared by his teacher for homework. So without a lecture to listen to, he and his classmates at Segerstrom Fundamental High School spend class time doing practice problems in small groups, taking quizz... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1849928-teachers-flip-flipped-learning-class-model.html 2013-01-27T22:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1813340-witness-calif-student-smirked-while-firing-shots.html TAFT, Calif. (AP) — Morgan Alldredge had just finished her oceanography test when a classmate she knows well suddenly walked in the open door to her science class with a shotgun. "He didn't say anything. He just shot right away," said the 16-year-old junior who was sitting by the doorway as the terrifying events unfolded Thursday morning at Taft Union Hig... Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:29:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1813340-witness-calif-student-smirked-while-firing-shots.html 2013-01-11T23:29:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1782424-parents-struggle-to-find-gender-neutral-toys.html PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A 13-year-old girl's campaign to get Hasbro to make an Easy-Bake Oven that isn't purple or pink so it would appeal to her little brother is a fresh sign of movement in an old debate. Parents who hope to expose their children to different kinds of play — science sets for girls and dolls for boys, for example — can find themselves stymied by a toy indus... Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1782424-parents-struggle-to-find-gender-neutral-toys.html 2012-12-21T19:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1768822-lack-food-stunts-chad-children-damages-minds.html LOURI, Chad (AP) — One morning, a little girl called Achta sat in the front row of this village's only school and struggled mightily with the assignment her teacher had given her. She grasped a piece of chalk in her tiny fingers. Her face tense with concentration, she tried to direct the chalk clockwise across her slate. She'd been asked to draw a circle.... Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1768822-lack-food-stunts-chad-children-damages-minds.html 2012-12-15T19:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757658-us-students-math-science.html WASHINGTON (AP) — American fourth-graders are performing better than they were four years ago in math and reading, but students four years older show no such progress, a global study released Tuesday revealed. Although the U.S. remains in the top dozen or so countries in all subjects tested, the gap between the U.S. and the top-performing nations is much ... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1757658-us-students-math-science.html 2012-12-11T17:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1738688-conn-neighbor-wyoming-killer-was-upset-with-dad.html VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A man who police say killed his father, a woman and himself in Wyoming on Friday told a neighbor in Connecticut weeks before the killings that he believed his father gave him Asperger's syndrome and said his dad should be "castrated" to prevent him from having more children. Neighbor Matt DiPinto of Vernon, Conn., told local reporters... Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:00:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1738688-conn-neighbor-wyoming-killer-was-upset-with-dad.html 2012-12-02T22:00:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1736100-police-hero-instructor-fought-son-arrow-attack.html CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Gravely wounded by an arrow fired into his head, a Wyoming college instructor still managed to wrestle with his 25-year-old son who carried out the attack and give his students time to flee the classroom, say police who hailed the actions as heroic. More grisly details of the horrific murder-suicide in Wyoming came to light Saturday, a... Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1736100-police-hero-instructor-fought-son-arrow-attack.html 2012-12-02T08:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1734616-police-wyo-murder-suicide-happened-class.html CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A man wielding a sharp-edged weapon killed one person in a Casper neighborhood Friday before killing a male teacher and himself in front of students in a community college classroom, causing a campus-wide lockdown as authorities tried to piece together what happened. Police found the suspect and teacher dead at a science building on th... Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1734616-police-wyo-murder-suicide-happened-class.html 2012-12-01T01:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1733480-house-votes-to-offer-advanced-degree-visas.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Testing the waters of what is expected to be a turbulent battle over immigration policy next year, the House voted Friday to make green cards accessible to foreign students graduating with advanced science and math degrees from U.S. universities. But even this limited step, strongly backed by the high-tech industry and enjoying some bipa... Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1733480-house-votes-to-offer-advanced-degree-visas.html 2012-11-30T18:25:00Z