CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Brady Stafford sits quietly, his feet flat on the floor with pencil in hand, as he pours over the math problems before him trying to solve for the mean, median and mode. His ...

As they sit as their desks, students in Sara Wright’s fifth-grade class are actually getting quite the workout. That’s because Wright, a Wea Ridge (Indiana) Elementaryteacher, recently swapped out her ...

WILDWOOD — James Carpenter, 9, is more than happy to demonstrate the new bouncy chair in his classroom at the Glenwood Avenue School. He’s already developed a system to carefully bounce and write at ...

Fourth-graders don’t sit on tiny desk chairs in Liberty Looney’s class. Instead, they hop onto pink, blue and green stability balls. The thick, plastic contraptions, also known as exercise or yoga ...

Heads bob up and down like boats on a choppy lake in Beth Martin's Hambright Elementary School classroom. A soft swishing sound permeates the room as Martin introduces her bobbing fifth-graders to a ...

It’s the era of students in motion. Gone are the days when they had to sit still until gym class or recess. Enter some K-12 classrooms across the country and you’ll find exercise balls instead of ...

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Every once in a while they solve equations by tossing around a beach ball - covered not by sand but with basic addition problems - and the kids do the math based on where the ball bounces, thumbs ...

Adding medicine balls to a training program opens myriad exercise options that cannot be easily performed with any other source of resistance. When leveraged correctly, medicine balls add elements of ...