Teacher gleans federal kudos for bookless classroom
TAYLORSVILLE — Jerry Mangus' textbook-less teaching has dazzled the U.S. Department of Education.
Laura Seitz, Deseret Morning News
Jerry Mangus, a 5th and 6th-grade math teacher at Plymouth Elementary School in Taylorsville, received the No Child Left Behind Act Maerican Star of Teaching Award on November 2, 2005.
Mangus, who teaches fifth- and sixth-grade math at Plymouth Elementary, uses only computers to teach fractions and other numerical concepts to kids. He's built computer labs in his school, each of his students has his or her own machine, and their test scores have leaped. Article continues
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