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Effective mathematics teaching is required to improve mathematics education. The experience that the teachers provide shape the students' understanding and their ability to use mathematics in their daily lives. This research study was carried out by a few UCF faculty members, as well as some from other colleges and universities. It focused on pre-service elementary school teachers and their ability to contextualize and decontextualize fraction subtraction problems by both writing problems and choosing problems that support given expressions.

In the article, it states that, "teachers of social studies content are less likely than teachers of other content areas to utilize technology in their classroom." This research study (carried out by a UCF faculty member) focuses on how a technology coordinators' beliefs towards technology, instruction, and students impacted how technology was used during a technology-enriched project with a group of fourth grade students. It was found that the coordinator's beliefs did in fact directly impact how technology was used.

Carol Dweck revisits the concept of growth mindset, to clarify any misconceptions based on her research findings, outlining its relationship with learning success and failure.

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The Just Read, Florida! office spearheaded the effort to revise the Reading Endorsement to incorporate new research conducted since the National Reading Panel Report. Dr. Barbara Foorman, Dr. Timothy Shanahan, and Dr. Janice Dole served as framers and reviewers for this project.

OPTIMUS PRIME wants YOU to showcase your NASA knowledge in a Glog! Your Mission: Search for Spinoffs in your Environment Spinoffs are like OPTIMUS PRIME- they come from Space to solve problems on Earth! That's why we need you to identify NASA Spinoff technology in your world and test your skills at changing an everyday object into something that will make your world a better place! John Lucyk

Digital Publishing Site with interesting take on getting your work out there.