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The Power of ExpectationsNobody rises to low expectations, but how can teachers use high expectations to impact student success? Here are 5 ways to maximise the Pygmalion Effect...

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So WrongThere's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an expose of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.

This data is indicating that the longer it takes a student to answer a maths number fact question the higher likelyhood that the student gets that question incorrect. This speaks to the importance of having our students beable to automatically recall number facts.