NEWSLETTER November 2019

NEWSLETTER
 November
 
2019
What's new in the world of math and education this month?

It was once thought that there were inherent differences in the brains of boys and girls that would cause one gender to be superior at math to the other. Such ideas have long since fallen by the wayside and new research is pointing to the brains of both genders being equal in math.

From The Research
Math Looks The Same In The Brains Of Boys And Girls
There's new evidence that girls start out with the same math abilities as boys. A study of 104 children from ages 3 to 10 found similar patterns of brain activity in boys and girls as they engaged in basic math tasks, researchers reported Friday in the journal Science of Learning. "They are indistinguishable," says Jessica Cantlon, an author of the study and professor of developmental neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Child Development
Good At Math? It Means Little If You're Not Confident
Being good at math relates to better financial and medical outcomes—unless you don't have confidence in your own abilities with numbers, new research suggests. In two studies, researchers found that the key to success in personal finances and dealing with a complex disease was a match between a person's math abilities and how comfortable and assured he or she felt using those skills.

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Monthly Mind-Bending Math Video 
'Tis the time of the year yet again where clocks have been set back 1 hour to end Daylight Savings Time. Often discussed is the rumor that this change increases the number of cardiac events amongst the population. Is this the case?  

Education News 
America's Schools Flunk
The highest-achieving students are doing better and the lowest are doing worse than a decade ago. That’s one depressing revelation from the latest Nation’s Report Card that details how America’s union-run public schools are flunking. The results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress, which is administered to students around the country every two years, were published on Wednesday. There isn’t much to cheer. Only 35% of fourth graders rated proficient in reading, which is about the same as in 2009. Worse, students have backslid in reading over the last two years.

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New Jersey Schools
New Jersey First In Nation To Give All Students Access To Arts Education
New Jersey has become the first state in the nation to provide access to arts education in every public school, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday during a visit to Paramus High School.

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