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But even the math improvements at both grade levels compared unfavorably with progress made from 2000 to 2003, said Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy, a nonprofit group that has mixed criticism of the law with praise for its accomplishments.
Math improvements were more evident with older grades, although there is a possibility that these improvements were practice effects.
This study provided preliminary evidence that brief spatial training (one session) leads to targeted math improvements (missing term problems).
Finally, in one study combining spatial training and math understanding, Cheng and Mix (2014) showed spatial and specific math improvements after spatial training.
Our current implementation of Think3d! will further examine targeted math improvements both relative to other problem types and relative to control classrooms who have not had embodied spatial training.
In sum, these models reveal that overall math improvements are predicted by improvements on the Paper Folding test, a near transfer test of the origami and paper engineering diagram interpretation skills developed by Think3d!
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That's distressing news, given that Michigan is just one of just six states where overall student performance in fourth grade reading has declined since 2003, and we are second to last in the country for fourth grade math improvement.
On last year's Standardized Testing and Reporting Results only 16 percent of the students were proficient or advanced in English and math, an improvement from the previous year.
Math-induced AYP-failures showed strong improvements in math, while reading-induced AYP-failures showed marked improvements in reading.
Some "evidence suggests that for math scores, this improvement may have been due to differences in school composition," according to the study.
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