Company Profile for Carnegie Learning.Carnegie Learning Carnegie Learning, Inc. is a publisher of math curriculum for middle school, high school, and post-secondary students. The company uses a blended approach, with a textbook and software (called Cognitive Tutor) for each subject. (R) is a leading provider of core, full-year mathematics programs as well as supplemental intervention applications for middle school and high school students. The company's Cognitive Tutor A cognitive tutor is an intelligent tutoring system which develops a cognitive model of a student as he or she interacts with the program, providing problems and individualized instruction based on this model. (R) is helping more than 325,000 students in over 750 school districts across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. succeed in math by integrating interactive software sessions, text, and teacher-led classroom lessons into a unique learning platform for 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 readiness, Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II and Integrated Math programs. The U.S. Department of Education recognizes our Cognitive Tutor Algebra I program as one of only two math curricula scientifically proven to have significant, positive effects on student learning. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Learning was founded by cognitive science cognitive science Interdisciplinary study that attempts to explain the cognitive processes of humans and some higher animals in terms of the manipulation of symbols using computational rules. researchers from Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). in conjunction with veteran mathematics teachers.
Company: Carnegie Learning
Headquarters Address: 1200 Penn Avenue, Ste 150
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Main Telephone: 412.690.2442
Website: www.carnegielearning.com
Type of Organization: Private
Industry: Education
Key Executives: CEO: Dennis Ciccone
COO: David Hart
VP, Sales: Joseph Goins
Public Relations
Contact: Mary Murrin
Phone: 412.690.2442 X176
Email: mmurrin@carnegielearning.com
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