Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close
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Phone tutoring boosts math scores when schools are forced to close

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 9, 202621 min

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Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, how phone calls could improve math skills during school closures and why the world map might be in for an update. I'm Benjamin Thompson.

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During times of emergency or disaster, children's education can suffer, especially during periods of prolonged school closure, for example. This week a team of researchers have been looking at a potentially cost-effective way to try and mitigate the impacts to young people's education, and they've got a paper

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out about it in nature. Reporting on the story is Mahana Basu, who joins me now. Mahana, thank you so much for being here. Thanks a lot for having me.

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