Boxer Learning and TeacherVision.com Create Partnership to Offer Online Math Lessons To Supplement Classroom Learning.Business Editors/Education Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2001 Boxer Learning, Inc., creator of the first comprehensive Internet learning environment for math, is now providing users of TeacherVision.com, a leading teacher Web site created by teachers for teachers and part of Learning Network for K-12 (http://www.learningnetwork.com), free access to a library of BoxerMath.com online lessons. Featuring tutorials, interactive tools, and cross-curricular activities, the BoxerMath.com lessons are available in TeacherVision.com's "Math Online Tutorial Center" found within the popular "Community of Interest" area. Specific lessons currently include 2-D and 3-D Objects, Reasoning and Logic, Tessellations, Exponential and Logarithmic logarithmic pertaining to logarithm. logarithmic relationship when the logs of two variables plotted against each other create a straight line. Functions, and Radius of the Earth. In addition, Boxer Learning is offering a free two-week BoxerMath.com trial to all TeacherVision.com users. The BoxerMath.com lessons provide TeacherVision.com's technology-savvy teachers established online math activities that can help sharpen students' math skills both at school or at home. Developed by professional educators, the lessons consist of content that meets 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 (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. ) standards. They also feature high-quality interactive math tools normally only available with a paid subscription to BoxerMath.com . "Boxer Learning is pleased to enter into this partnership with TeacherVision.com to provide educators access to BoxerMath.com, the premier online learning environment for mathematics," said Bob Block, Boxer Learning's senior vice president of business development. "Boxer Learning and TeacherVision.com share the same commitment to delivering superior Internet-based materials that produce learning results. Our alliance with Learning Network's TeacherVision.com also extends our strategic relationship with Pearson plc to distribute Boxer Learning's award-winning math curriculum products to schools around the world." About Boxer Learning 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 (http://www.BoxerMath.com) provides self-paced, graphically interesting tutorials for elementary, middle and high school students, complete with state education standard correlations and results tracking. BoxerMath.com includes full courses in math fundamentals, 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 (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 (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 and students directly through BoxerMath.com. Boxer Learning is located in Charlottesville, Virginia Charlottesville is an independent city located within the confines of Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of King George III of the United Kingdom. . About Learning Network Learning Network, the Internet's largest website for parents, students and teachers, offers an unmatched array of online educational tools, content, and reference resources. Learning Network is part of Pearson plc, the London-based international media company, which also owns leading educational and media companies including Prentice-Hall, Addison Wesley Longman, Penguin Books, and the Financial Times. For more information, call 1-888-816-1999, or visit www.learningnetwork.com on the Internet (America Online See AOL. Keyword: Learning Network). |
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