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A Decade of MATHCOUNT Honors in the Oval Office
Honoring math students in the Oval Office has been a tradition for 10 consecutive years now, but many presidents have welcomed these champions. President Barack Obama and former Presidents George W. Bush, William Clinton, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan have all honored MATHCOUNT champs in that same office...
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Survey Shows that Parents Need Help Talking Science with their Children
How many teachers reading this wish that your students' parents had more opportunities to get their children involved in science? Well, you are not alone. According to a recent survey, 500 teachers were asked that similar question and 94% of them agreed. In the same survey, though, more than half...
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Alternative thinking leads to new T-Bot design
The beauty of learning hands on is that it encourages alternative thinking - thinking that leads outside of the textbook or outside of the classroom even. It opens possibilities and provides experience and a deeper understanding. Hands-on learning allows students to come up with alternative solutions...
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The Pitsco Enhanced Experience – A Teacher’s Story
How is success measured? For Pitsco, hearing stories like the one below is success. For a teacher and his students, it can be measured in a lot of ways. Below is a teacher's story about an assignment for his class and their journey to success. The Pitsco Enhanced Experience Lawrence Volk's Physics...
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One Small Step for STEM, one Giant Leap for Students
Implementing STEM into your classroom can be done incrementally - one small step at a time. And be assured, your student's interest & comprehension of all the STEM subject matters (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) will take a giant leap forward. One fallacy within some winds...
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Influences for STEMM Careers
At Pitsco, we focus a great deal of our attention on current students and teachers and aiding in their success, but we also are very interested in tomorrow's engineers, scientists, and mathematicians and how we can help them get there. Professors at Michigan State University conducted research that...
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