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Mathematics and women: Breaking a vicious cycle
Engineering is not for women. Men do better with numbers. Heard this before? Stereotypes like these persist in Latin America and have a negative influence on the way women relate to mathematics and science during school. It is time to change this!
(Related articles) Mar 8, 2012.
Teacher Unions as Partners for Improved Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Regional Policy Dialogue was held in Washington, DC, on November 15-16, 2011 with the objective of opening a space that would enable the participation of teacher union leaders in the region.
(Related articles) Feb 15, 2012.
What is actually going on inside Latin American math classrooms?
Do teachers in higher performing countries teach math differently from those in lower performing countries? To explore these questions, we went inside math classrooms in three countries, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.
(Related articles) Nov 7, 2011.
Educating Human Beings in the 21st Century
Today students are indoors, sitting still in large groups, and acquire knowledge through drudgery and repetition. Isn’t it time to adapt our classes so they look more like the African savannah and less like a factory?
(Related articles) Nov 7, 2011.
Peruvian teachers do away with the memorization of science theory
An innovative science and environment pilot coaches Peruvian children to develop skills in solving scientific problems through challenges that capture their interest and stimulate their imagination. Results from the first year of the pilot, already reflected on children’s test scores.
(Related articles) Nov 7, 2011.
Can children play their way through math?
What if children’s natural proclivity to play is not a distraction but an ally in math learning? That is the idea behind Mathematics for All (MAT), an innovative model for teaching math that uses games to help kids develop their mathematical skills.
(Related articles) Nov 7, 2011.
Can four-year-olds do algebra, arithmetic, and geometry?
With the “Tikichuela, mathematics in my school!” project, about 4,000 school children in Paraguay are learning pre-math skills using objects of different shapes and colors to understand, even without knowing yet, how algebra, arithmetic and geometry work.
(Related articles) Nov 7, 2011.
All Children Counting
To mark the World Science Day 2011, we invite educators and policy makers in the region to promote the teaching of math and science through hands-on experiments and inquiry-based approaches that strengthen children conceptual understanding of these subjects as well as their critical thinking.
(Related articles) Nov 7, 2011.
Can Latin America come together to improve public education?
In many countries of Latin America, business and community leaders have come together around a common goal: to bring the issue of education back to the national agenda.
(Related articles) Oct 21, 2011.
Learning from South Korea
Education is an opportunity to boost the economy: this is the philosophy that led South Korea to its success.
(Related articles) Oct 21, 2011.
