We all solve problems on a daily basis. Problem solving is not a skill that one is born with - it's cultivated over time with practice and experience. Doing math helps us to develop the analytical and critical thinking skills required to be a good problem solver. In the last…
May
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May
10
The other day, my 7-year-old son wrote me a note. It read ‘Things that I really don’t like - Math!’ Frankly, I was a bit surprised. He seemed to enjoy doing math at home (granted, we were adding and subtracting with M&Ms and Skittles) and seemed to have an aptitude…
May
06
New York, NY (May 6, 2016) – Knowre, an education technology company, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a REVERE Awards finalist in the Supplemental Resources for the math category. Only the top quarter of REVERE Awards entries receive finalist status, making the finalists pool a…
Apr
28
Learning math builds hard skills. There’s no contest to that. When we asked teachers why have to learn math at NCTM 2016, most responses we received highlighted how doing math helps us to develop abstract and analytical thinking skills. The “hardness” of math – the precision and the fact that…
Apr
20
Last week, we attended the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Wow – what a fantastic conference! We connected with amazing math teachers and attended inspirational sessions while bonding as a team in beautiful San Francisco. In sessions and in our conversations with teachers, we observed passion…
Mar
31
New York, NY (March 31, 2016) – Sylvan Learning, Inc. (www.sylvanlearning.com), the leading North American provider of personal learning for students, and Knowre (www.knowre.com), an award-winning education technology company, announced a partnership today to develop a suite of digital math programs utilizing Knowre’s innovative technology and content for students across…
Mar
14
Happy Pi Day! To celebrate our favorite irrational number, we've created a riddle for you. Can you solve it?
Mar
07
We recently updated the Knowre Teacher Dashboard, which includes many exciting features that make it easier for teachers to effectively use Knowre in their classrooms. As we are laser-focused on personalization and on empowering teachers with data, in this update, we have emphasized the inclusion of aggregated data and designed…
Feb
29
Happy Leap Year! Do you know why we have Leap Years? It's because the time it takes for the Earth to travel around the Sun takes longer than 365 days - 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds, to be exact. Last week, our blog explored Patient Problem…
Feb
18
In his excellent TED talk, “Math Class Needs a Makeover,” Dan Meyer emphasizes the need for more patient problem solving. He explains that since real world problems don’t come neatly packaged with all the necessary information provided (as they often do in a textbook), students should learn to think through…