Kern Dance Alliance (KDA) has launch the fall 2017 session of Shine for Girls: Math + Dance = SUCCESS (SHINE), an innovative, curriculum-based after-school program for middle school girls. Utilizing ...
For some students, math can be a tough subject. But now, some schools are offering math lessons in the form of dance, and the concept is taking off. The combination is the brainchild of dancer and MIT ...
Tom Evert is a “teaching artist” who teaches math and geometry through the lens of interpretive dance at various Northeast Ohio schools. “We use dance to demonstrate our principles,” explained the ...
"Historically, math has been taught as a rote subject. But over the last 15 years, there's been an effort to rethink math instruction," said Mary Berle, mathematics coordinator for Muddy Brook ...
Chief Correspondent and Executive Editor, "Eye on America" Jim Axelrod is the chief correspondent and executive editor for CBS News' "Eye on America" franchise, part of the "CBS Evening News." He also ...
The students in the SHINE for Girls dance program wear T-shirts that read "Every girl is good at math" on the front. On the back, "Math + dance = success." Run by two seniors at Pensacola High as part ...
Figuring out the optimal mix of fun activities and academic tutoring in after-school programs is always a challenge, but a Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduate has created a program ...
Shake off that old stereotype about girls not being good at math. A new program for local middle school girls hopes to have them jumping, twirling and dancing their way to better grades and a boost in ...
Woodcrest Elementary School first-grade teacher Lynn Verdusco quickly applied what she had learned at a recent workshop to give her students new tools for understanding math concepts. On Wednesday, ...
Over the years, Kirin Sinha has heard the same question from her mostly male professors and classmates: “Why didn’t you get deterred along the way?” Sinha, a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of ...