Boxer Learning Announces BoxerMath: Fundamental Math for Grade 3-5 Internet Math Education.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 Boxer Learning, Inc., creator of the first comprehensive Internet learning environment for math, today announced BoxerMath: Fundamental Math, a new curriculum that takes the successful BoxerMath Internet education approach to grades 3-5. Fundamental Math will be available to schools, parents and homeschoolers beginning this summer. The announcement was made at the 79th annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) was founded in 1920. It has grown to be the world's largest organization concerned with mathematics education, having close to 100,000 members across the USA and Canada, and internationally. (NCTM NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music NCTM North Carolina Transportation Museum NCTM National Capital Trolley Museum NCTM Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage ). "BoxerMath: Fundamental Math is the first grade 3-5 math software to teach math concepts in a truly visually appealing and interactive format," says Scott Gillespie, Boxer Learning's Fundamental Math project leader. As with the current line of BoxerMath courses for grades 6-adult, Fundamental Math will intertwine solid pedagogy with graphically rich and engaging activities to motivate student exploration of math concepts. Fundamental Math provides a collection of activities that educators can assign in any sequence and at any time, either to create their own curriculum or supplement an existing curriculum. Fundamental Math also uses audio and Macromedia Flash to power its activities and demonstrations. The low-bandwidth Flash applications introduce and reinforce math concepts. Audio is available at any time to assist with instruction. At launch, Fundamental Math will feature more than 100 activities covering five topic areas, including Number Concepts, Addition / Subtraction subtraction, fundamental operation of arithmetic; the inverse of addition. If a and b are real numbers (see number), then the number a−b is that number (called the difference) which when added to b (the subtractor) equals , Multiplication / Division, Fractions / Decimals, and Problem Solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. . Over 100 more activities in five more topic areas will be introduced in subsequent releases. Fundamental Math will be part of BoxerMath.com, the first comprehensive Internet learning environment for math. Fundamental Math will be distributed to the school market exclusively by NCS (Network Call Signaling) CableLabs version of MGCP. See MGCP/MEGACO. NCS - Network Computing System: Apollo's RPC system used by DEC and Hewlett-Packard.The protocol has been adopted by OSF. Learn, and offered to parents and homeschoolers directly through BoxerMath.com. Founded in 1995, Boxer Learning (http://www.boxerlearning.com) is an Internet education company committed to developing superior instructional materials that deliver learning results. Boxer Learning's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , BoxerMath.com, maximizes learning for middle and high school students by providing self-paced, graphically interesting tutorials, complete with state education standard correlations and results tracking. BoxerMath.com includes full courses in pre-algebra, algebra I and II, geometry, and trigonometry trigonometry [Gr.,=measurement of triangles], a specialized area of geometry concerned with the properties of and relations among the parts of a triangle. Spherical trigonometry is concerned with the study of triangles on the surface of a sphere rather than in the ; CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). versions with Internet features are also available. Boxer Learning's products are distributed to schools through a partnership with NCS Learn (a division of Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. ) and to parents directly through BoxerMath.com. Boxer Learning is located in Charlottesville, Virginia. NEWS MEDIA ONLY: For additional information about Boxer Learning, Inc., please contact Trish Butler by phone at 703-917-0611 or by email at tbutler@sagecommunications.net. |
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