After a Texas teacher saw his students struggling with math, he turned to rap music. | via NPR
Thomas Mayfield had a major problem to solve in his fifth-grade classroom.
"Single parent homes, incarcerated parents, low financial stability — a lot of that was going on," he said. They rap and make viral music videos with thousands of views about multiplication, and motivational songs like passing the big end-of-year exam called the STARR test. Last year, while working at the Leadership Academy at Como Elementary, he even started engaging students nationwide by creatingMayfield's district recognizes he's been so good at engaging students that he got promoted for the 2021-2022 school year to coach teachers at another Title 1 school in Fort Worth, J.T. Stevens Elementary School.
"I can recall myself at home doing homework and just singing the song in my head, helping me understand, 'oh, I know what this timetable is. I know - oh, five times five. That's 25'," Morehouse said."It was really a great way to help me make it through math."
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