Sentence examples for given to math from inspiring English sources

Schools are responding, at least in terms of the hours given to math.

Several metrics suggest that elementary science instruction is on shaky ground: Those who teach it are more likely to be novices; science receives only 40% the time given to math and less than 30% spent on reading; and teachers feel only half as well prepared to teach science as math.

The experimental design for students enrolled in a first-year biology course consisted of a side-by-side comparison of two groups: The active math group was assigned additional computations within the framework of an assignment given to the passive math (control) group, which did not perform computations.

At the conclusion of the period studied here, a survey was given to science and math majors who had participated in STREAMS's activities.

Mr. Obama agreed that "we have piled on a lot of standardized tests" under federal education law, meaning the annual proficiency tests in reading and math given to Grades 3 through 8 as well as once in high school.

Try your hand at five math problems given to students at BEAM.

We evaluated different aspects of the learning environment in three short, motivation-oriented math courses given to Mexican high-school students.

In elementary schools, more than four out of five special education students in the fourth and eighth grades took the English and math tests given to general education students for the first time last year, Mr. Mills said.

The exam, the California Achievement Test in math, was given to third through eighth graders and is scored so that nationally, half the students will score at or above their grade level and half below.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress, a comprehensive reading and math examination given to hundreds of thousands of students periodically since 1990, including in 2003 and last spring, was the first nationwide exam to allow a direct comparison between two successive test administrations since Mr. Bush signed the law in January 2002.

NAEP -- also called the Nation's Report Card -- is a reading and math exam given to a nationally representative sample of students every few years.