Tina Rosenberg Opinionator The New York Times. Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. Like middle school math teachers everywhere, the seventh grade math teachers at Middle School 8. Brooklyns Park Slope have an impossible job. At this high poverty school, which not long ago was considered failing, students enter with levels of math skills ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade. How can anyone teach to them all Middle School 8. Brooklyn is part of a broad evolution in teaching math, employing technology to provide each student with a personalized lesson. Emily Reisman, whos been teaching math at M. S. 8. 8 for six years, said that until three years ago, the school taught math the way virtually everyone did. We would create work sheets at different levels, she said. For adding and subtracting fractions, wed create low, medium and high level activities for kids to do. The lower level was more straightforward, with a picture. The higher level had word problems. 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And that is imperative, because math is cumulative basic skills are necessary for building advanced ones. The American educational system, then, creates a permanent math underclass. A student who fails at fourth grade math will be likely to fall further behind each year. If he is missing essential early skills and concepts, he may spend the rest of his years of school learning nothing at all in math. For any subject, any room, it cant be true that one teacher teaching 3. Joel Rose, an education expert who in 2. Online news and press release distribution service for small and mediumsized businesses and corporate communications. Includes current items, organized by date. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have a new crew memberan adorable robotic ball capable of recording video while moving in zero gravity. Dubbed. 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So far, the program is used in only 3. New York, New Jersey, Washington, D. C., North Carolina and Georgia. Results are positive but not uniformly so. Its a work in progress but one with great potential. M. S. 8. 8 has been using School of One in one of the three academies into which it is divided. The program requires a large upfront investment. The school knocked down three walls to create a giant classroom, and Ailene Altman Mitchell, the principal, said she also spent 1. The classroom is the size of four rooms, its divisions marked with shelving and different colored carpet and chairs. When I visited last month, all four seventh grade math teachers and some aides circulated, teaching 1. As math class begins, students find their names on airport style monitors outside the room, which tell them where to go. The different areas are named for high schools in Brooklyn. Peter Russo, the assistant principal, said that last year the school made the mistake of using New York sports teams. They were dropped when this proved too depressing. The monitors also tell the students which of several learning modalities they will use. That day, some answered questions at a computer. A few feet away, others did work sheets in pairs. Five students sat at a table with a teacher, solving equations. At one end of the room, Reisman worked with 2. Subject matter varied simplifying equations, subtracting negative numbers, graphing expressions on a number line, and solving story problems about probability. At one table, Tianna, Romel and Danielle were hunched over work sheets of probability problems involving gumballs. Work sheets also offered wrong answers, and asked students to identify the mistakes that led to them. The three were discussing the errors, and endorsed the method. It engages kids, said Tianna. You dont get bored listening to the teachers. And the computers make it more fun. Romel and Danielle said they liked working in groups. M. S. 8. 8 is part of a broad evolution in teaching math, employing technology to provide students with a lesson personalized for each. The first step, now widespread, was the digital lesson, usually a computer game or video. The best known web provider, Khan Academy, is free. But there are many other sources of digital lessons, from pricey packages created by education companies to rudimentary videos that teachers make at home. Computers can also administer and grade math quizzes some choose the next question depending on how the student did on the previous one. If a student tests her mastery with a short exit quiz every day at the end of the lesson, the teacher and student can know quickly whether the student is learning, and how the student learns best. School of One has both components. New Classrooms has a library of 1. Pearson and IXL. About a third are online, and the rest are taught live. And every math class ends with each student taking an online quiz that tests whether she has mastered todays lesson. But the next step is the real innovation the educational equivalent of an air traffic control system. Each students daily exit quiz is fed into an algorithm, which produces the next days schedule for each student and teacher. Teachers get a preview, and can override the schedule. If a student has mastered a skill, on to the next one. If not, she gets another days instruction, this time through a different modality. The algorithm is aware of which modalities work best for her. Its an enormous departure from traditional teaching. Justin Reich, a scholar on educational technology at Harvards Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said other digital learning platforms try to integrate all the pieces, but School of One is the most comprehensive. Technology has proven to be good at assessing students computational abilities very, very quickly, he said. But weve had a lot of difficulty translating that model of what students know into actionable information. The information we give teachers is either too coarse or too fine. Its either Johnny cant do math or here are 1. I cant look at all that. The value proposition of School of One is by telling you what the next instructional step is, well help you thread between that. Many brands of technology save teachers from spending time making up and grading tests. School of One also regroups students and matches them with the just right lesson. In a regular classroom, you do the best you could, said Reisman. But this does it every night for you. Is School of One a timesaver overall Not necessarily, said Yaron Bohbot, M. S. 8. 8s math coach, and a former coach with New Classrooms. The collaboration School of One requires takes extra time, he said, but teachers can spend less time on rote work.