STEM and STEAM help students build lifelong skills: critical thinking, collaboration, problem-solving, and more.
How to teach K-12 coding without computers
Beyond individual lessons, it’s important to build a classroom coding culture that encourages problem-solving and critical thinking
NBC launches new educational video series about the Summer Olympics
With the 2012 Summer Olympic games just days away, NBC Learn—the educational arm of NBC News—has launched a new video series called “Science of the Summer Olympics: Engineering…
Intel, schools hoping to lure more students into science and engineering
Would you buy a deodorizing shoe rack? How about one that suggests outfits to go with your footwear?
New math software targets ‘perceptual learning’
As schools struggle to balance conceptual learning and recall of simple facts, a new series of online math education products proposes a different focus: pattern recognition.
Projects test real-world use of math as learning tool
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Childhood obesity linked to poorer math performance
Obese children face risks to their emotional and social well-being that can harm their academic performance, new research suggests, the California Watch reports.
Women engineers trace tech gender gap to childhood
Silicon Valley companies portray themselves as inventors of the future, but they're afflicted by a longstanding problem, the Associated Press reports.
National Flight Academy Camp teaches teens math, science
The planes are imaginary and Ambition is a simulated aircraft carrier, the centerpiece of the new, $33 million National Flight Academy that supporters are calling space camp taken…
Study: Common Core could boost U.S. math performance
The Common Core State Standards in mathematics have the potential to enhance students' academic performance if properly implemented, but most states have a long way to go, according…
Study: Eighth-grade students still lag in science
Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing slightly better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal…
Why the nation needs more female engineers
“Are you sure you want to be a software engineer? You are such a people person. Won’t you be stuck working alone, staring at a computer for hours…
Students win $115,000 by doing the math on high-speed rail
Many high school students do math problems about trains. Fewer win $115,000 in college scholarships by calculating the possible future of U.S. high-speed rail, LiveScience reports.
Students create their own 3D content
