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Schools Maximize Interactive Whiteboard Investments with Learning.com’s Aha!Math Whiteboard Edition

Aha!Math combined with interactive whiteboards give teachers effective tools to engage and motivate elementary students to be successful math learners

Portland, Ore. – November 17, 2008
Learning.com offers schools an easy and effective way to make the most of their interactive whiteboards and improve student math scores with its new Aha!Math Whiteboard Edition. This special promotion gives teachers the elements of Aha!Math that are ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard, including lively instruction and math games that free teachers to focus on how well students are grasping critical math skills.

Aha!Math Whiteboard Edition, a K-5, Web-delivered supplemental math curriculum, helps teachers to

• easily access a dynamic curriculum they can immediately put to use with their interactive whiteboards
• grab students’ attention and improve participation
• introduce and reteach math’s toughest concepts
• teach the way students expect to learn — with technology

The Aha!Math Whiteboard Edition will be offered through March 2009. Schools get building-wide, unlimited teacher use, and customized professional development to ensure successful implementation and use.

Teachers have tried and true ways to teach critical math concepts, but can’t always reach every student. Aha!Math Whiteboard Edition gives teachers multiple instructional models to help students have those aha! moments. Teachers find it simple to use with their whiteboards, and students love the interactive and lively results.

“When I use Aha!Math with the interactive whiteboard the whole class ends up participating – even kids who sit at the back of the room who don’t like to talk or raise their hand. They love it,” says Kelly Crowley, who teaches fourth and fifth grades at Pine Valley Elementary School in North Carolina. “I get better participation because students want to interact with the whiteboard and come up to the front of the class to put in their answers.”

Aha!Math, paired with an interactive whiteboard, frees teachers to continuously monitor their students for understanding. While Aha!Math’s digital teacher provides instruction, teachers can pause and restart the action to direct discussion, ask questions, engage students, and assess minute-by-minute how well students are grasping what they are learning.

“I can do a quick auditory assessment and note who is still being quiet and just how well students are responding,” Crowley says. “That lets me know in a real quick check how we’re doing getting a particular concept.”

Because Aha!Math provides multiple strategies for math instruction, it provides schools with an effective professional development tool. Math coaches, for example, can use Aha!Math with an interactive whiteboard to help teachers improve their math instruction.

About Learning.com
Learning.com, the premier provider of Web-delivered curriculum and assessment, partners with schools and districts to improve student learning outcomes. The Portland, Ore.-based company transforms learning experiences through its understanding of the art and science of Web-based teaching and learning. Founded in 1999, it serves nearly two million students in schools across the United States. Its award-winning solutions are EasyTech, a proven, K-8 technology literacy curriculum that helps students develop and apply technology skills in math, language arts, social studies and science; TechLiteracy Assessment, provides valid measurement and reports for critical technology skills and knowledge; and Aha!Math, an interactive K-5 supplemental math curriculum that supports teachers to improve students’ foundational math skills while developing their higher level problem-solving and reasoning skills. For more information, please visit www.learning.com or call 800-580-4640.