Learning.com’s Aha!Math named best K-5 math curriculum by Association of Education Publishers

Online math curriculum wins AEP’s Distinguished Achievement Award

Portland, Ore. – June 17, 2009
Learning.com is pleased to announce that Aha!Math, its Web-delivered, supplemental math curriculum for grades K-5, was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Association of Education Publishers at its AEP Awards Banquet June 11 in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes the year’s top educational products; Aha!Math won in the K-5 math category.

This highly competitive award has for more than 40 years honored the best products based on efficacy, usability and overall educational value. Entries undergo a two-tier judging process by experts in their respective areas. Products selected in the initial screening go to final judging where an expert judging panel reviews and certifies winners. As an instructional curriculum, Aha!Math was also judged in a classroom setting.

“Our goal is to provide teachers with digital curriculum that they can tailor to meet the individual needs of their students. Aha!Math does that with its flexible instruction model that engages students,” says William J. Kelly, Learning.com CEO. “We are proud that Aha!Math continues to receive recognition in the education industry as a valuable and effective digital curriculum.”

Aha!Math provides teachers with a research-based supplemental math curriculum that builds students’ procedural fluency and conceptual understanding in math’s most critical concepts. It engages and motivates students through interactive instruction, lessons and math games that make math come alive for students. It also provides teachers with an effective instructional model to engage students in learning and practicing, and multiple ways to teach math concepts they often find difficult to teach.

Aha!Math has also been awarded the Instructor magazine’s Teacher’s Pick award, was a 2009 SIIA CODiE Award finalist, and a 2007-8 Readers Choice Top 100 Products winner awarded by District Administration magazine.

Learning.com is the leading provider of innovative supplemental digital curriculum and assessment in technology, core curriculum and 21st century skills. In addition to Aha!Math, Learning.com provides teachers with easy-to-use resources that support individualized, group and whole-class instruction. These include:

• EasyTech – K-8 technology literacy curriculum that integrates technology skills into math, science, language arts and social studies.
• Aha!Science – Supplemental science curriculum for grades 3-5 that provides broad instruction and exploration of Physical, Earth and Space, and Life sciences.
• TechLiteracy Assessment – Elementary and Middle School assessment that provides valid measurement and reports for critical technology skills and knowledge.
• 21st Century Skills Assessment – Fully aligned to the ISTE NETS 2007 standards, and to key Partnership for 21st Century Skills outcomes, this assessment for Elementary and Middle School students provides valid data on their 21st century skills