Taking the time to talk to your children about current events like the Gulf Oil spill - and using mathematical terms to do so - can help students develop better reasoning and math skills and perform better in school, according to a study by a University at Buffalo professor. "When families chat about societal issues, they often create simple mathematical models of the events," says Ming Ming Chiu, a professor of learning and instruction at UB's Graduate School of Education with extensive experience studying how children from different cultures and countries learn...
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