BoxerMath Summer Workshop to Provide Teachers Techniques to Integrate Internet into Math Education.Business Editors/High Tech Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2001 Boxer Learning, Inc., creator of the first comprehensive Internet learning environment for math, today announced the BoxerMath Summer Workshop, a new two-day workshop for integrating BoxerMath online and 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). courses into a school's math curriculum. The BoxerMath Summer Workshop will familiarize teachers with BoxerMath capabilities and help them create integrated units of study to meet the needs of students with diverse learning styles. The Workshop will include hands-on training in a computer lab, the opportunity to work with Boxer Learning's curriculum designers, and a tour of Boxer Learning's facilities. A comprehensive binder of training materials will also be supplied. "The BoxerMath Summer Workshop is the final step in fully integrating BoxerMath into the classroom," says Seth Oldham, Boxer Learning vice president of product development. "While BoxerMath.com and our CD-ROM products are easy-to-use, this workshop shows you how to make them work in concert with an existing curriculum. You can even learn how to customize the BoxerMath curriculum based on your state learning standards Learning Standards is a term used to describe standards applied to education content, particularly in the US K-12 space. The Learning Standards themselves can can be found on the individual web sites for states [1] ." Scheduled for August 9 and 10, the BoxerMath Summer Workshop will take place 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. . Cost is $300 per teacher. Interested educators can get more information about the BoxerMath Summer Workshop by contacting Eve Solomon, Professional Development Coordinator, at 800-736-2824 ext.7335; workshop@boxerlearning.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 (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 pre-algebra, algebra algebra, branch of mathematics concerned with operations on sets of numbers or other elements that are often represented by symbols. Algebra is a generalization of arithmetic and gains much of its power from dealing symbolically with elements and operations (such as 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 , and will add math fundamentals in the summer; CD-ROM 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 directly through BoxerMath.com. 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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