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math anxiety

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PROOF POINTS: Lowering test anxiety in the classroom

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay September 25, 2023December 20, 2023

In education circles, it’s popular to rail against testing, especially timed exams. Tests are stressful and not the best way to measure knowledge, wrote Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in a Sept. 20, 2023 New York Times essay.  “You wouldn’t want a surgeon who rushes through a craniectomy, […]

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PROOF POINTS: Do math drills help children learn?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay May 30, 2023May 26, 2023
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