Two years ago, Amazon quietly acquired a relatively unknown math intervention tool called TenMarks.
The Making Pre-K Count study was designed to test the effects of an early math intervention for preschoolers.
Andrew Joseph, co-founder of Tenmarks, never expected Amazon to be a strategic buyer for their math intervention business — and while the strategy remains confidential, it's clear that the long-term vision for Amazon in edtech represents a massive departure from the way we have historically thought about the role of content and technology in education.
In summary, this preliminary study suggests that the design of the Expedition Atlantis intervention, which included four main features that were informed by the findings in previous robot-math interventions (e.g., RSD), was successful in fostering both students' proportional reasoning skills and personal interests/values as determined by within-participant comparisons.
A robot-math intervention was designed to target the proportional reasoning skills of sixth- through eighth-graders.
R & D needs to create and evaluate new reading and math approaches, interventions for English learners and struggling readers, technology applications, whole-school reforms, and other methodologies.
As educators come to appreciate the key role played by math anxiety, interventions that reduce it may become a key part of the math educational system.
For math learning, the intervention led to an average gain on students' scores on the five-item mathematics learning assessment of ten percentage points, and this was a moderate effect (M pre = 0.60, M post = 0.70, t = 28.60, p < .001, d = 0.40).
Using Optimal Design software, 24 we determined that a sample size of 252 schools with a minimum of 10 students for each school conferred 90% power, with an α of 0.05, intraclass correlation of 0.15, and explained variation by covariates (R) of 0.50, to detect a difference of 0.20 standard deviations in endline math score between intervention arms and the control group.
Hembree [ 6] showed that cognitive-behavioral interventions for math anxiety had a positive influence on math achievement test scores.
