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All-in-one Maths Suite to reduce costs for schools.


The new interactive Maths Suite for secondary schools from Hitachi Hitachi (hētä`chē), city (1990 pop. 202,141), Ibaraki prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashima Sea. The city is a leading producer of Japan's electrical equipment.  Interactive Solutions (www.hitachi-education.co.uk) is the first package of its kind to include hardware and software in one package. Comprising a Cambridge-Hitachi whiteboard The electronic equivalent of chalk and blackboard, but between remote users. Whiteboard systems allow network participants to simultaneously view one or more users drawing on an on-screen blackboard or running an application.  and a selection of maths software including Geometry geometry [Gr.,=earth measuring], branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of and relationships between points, lines, planes, and figures and with generalizations of these concepts.  tools, a graph paper design package and ready prepared lessons, the Maths Suite will run on Hitachi interactive whiteboards An interactive whiteboard is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer’s desktop onto the board’s surface, where users control the computer using a pen, finger or other device.  and can be purchased with e-learning credits. The Maths Suite combines the best resources from three leading suppliers of maths e-learning software, Cambridge Hitachi, Cabri and Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). . The package also contains Cambridge-Hitachi's Mult-e-Maths Tool Box, which consists of a workspace and tools that teachers can combine and use to create learning experiences customised for their class.

The prepared lessons featured in the Maths Suite have been developed for teachers who are not completely comfortable using an interactive whiteboard. The lessons have been designed to help a non-confident teacher to get a feel for working on a whiteboard and will encourage them to go on and prepare their own lesson plans.

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