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TED Talks

10. Khan Academy

Math manipulatives are things like cuisenaire rods, counters, base ten blocks, algebra tiles, tangrams, color tiles, fraction circles and strips.

geoboard supports geometry and measurement and the boards are small enough for students to manipulate and quickly show you the answers to questions.

geoboard

finds that the advantage comes from girls' superior verbal skills.

However, some parents and teachers in China say girls do arithmetic better than boys in primary school."

Indeed, girls outperformed boys in many math skills

We've already detailed how to check your Mac to see if you're infected -- but that requires some command line code, and we know that not all users are comfortable doing that. Now we've gone one step further and wrapped those commands into two AppleScripts.

Even if you aren't infected, make sure you install the latest Apple security update for Java to fix the vulnerability that allowed this nasty exploit to exist in the first place.

Women who are obese and/or have diabetes or high blood pressure during pregnancy may be about 60% more likely to have babies with autism, a new study suggests.

According to the study, 34% of U.S. women of childbearing age are obese and 8.7% have diabetes.

The National Archives and Records Administration website housing 1940 Census records registered over 60 million hits in just three hours on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, the second day they were open.

Economists will be able to analyze how people in specific occupations or smaller geographic areas fared during the Great Depression.

Every day educators must remember two things.1) We are not teaching subjects. We are teaching children.2) Children are more than test scores.Every day educators must do two things.1) Be aware of how you are supporting your children in doing work that is worthy of the world. 2) Ensure each child knows that they matter.