Imagine walking into a math classroom. Everything is quiet, students are diligently writing and reading and thinking. You hear the rustle of paper, scratching pens, and the occasional student shifting ...

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Students in Rose Moe’s sixth grade math class at Lincoln Middle School are given a mission each year: to design the ultimate lunchbox. Working in groups of three, they embark on a four to six week ...

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We hear all the time about project-based learning. But how does it really work? Of all the tools humans have ever created to help describe and understand our world, few are more useful than ...

Elizabeth Vega teaches pre-kindergarten at Loma Verde Elementary in Novato, California. Her school and district leaders want to do more project-based learning and have invested in getting teachers ...

Through project-based learning, educators can make challenging subjects engaging by emphasizing the relationship between classroom learning, real-world problems and student interests. “Authenticity ...

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Augmented Math: This project introduces a machine learning-based tool that augments static math textbooks with interactive AR explanations, without requiring programming. Using OCR and computer vision ...