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    Math problems? Help is on the way

    By Sharon Schmickle | Published Wed, Oct 21 2009 1:26 pm

    Third graders in the Twin Cities who are struggling with math will be the target of a University of Minnesota study funded with nearly $1 million from the National Institutes of Health.

    Educational psychology professors Asha Jitendra and Jennifer McComas were awarded the grant for a two-year project to focus on students who have trouble making sense of word problems. This two-year project will test the efficacy of “schema-based instruction,” in which students learn to first categorize word problems into a few different types and then apply a plan to figure out the solution.

    About 260 third graders in 40 Twin Cities classrooms will take part in the study.

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    Scientific Agenda reports on important and interesting developments from the world of science in Minnesota and elsewhere. Coverage includes reports from MinnPost journalist Sharon Schmickle, who has won many awards for her science journalism. She has also taken part in several science fellowships, including the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship at Cambridge University in England, the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Latin American fellowship sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Inc. in New York.




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