Oklahoma School District Earns High Test Scores With Everyday Mathematics(R).
TULSA, Okla., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Union Public School District teachers in Grades K-6 piloted Everyday Mathematics(R) during the 2002-2003 school year. The program was implemented district-wide in Grades K-3 the following year and then adopted in Grades K-5 for the 2004-2005 school year. Since then, students' math scores...

If You Can't Beat Them ... Join Them! Tabula Digita Opens Registration for 2nd Annual Educator Multiplayer Educational Video Game Tournament at 2009 FETC.
Next week at the 2009 Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) educators will once again put their math skills to the test as they go head-to-head in a competitive gaming tournament using the DimensionM(TM) educational video game. Tabula Digita, a leading educational gaming company known for its cutting-edge mathematics' programs...

Innovative New Jersey Teacher Training Focuses on Increasing Student Performance in Math.
TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Set against the backdrop of volatile fuel costs, reduced budgets, and busy teacher schedules comes a new public/private partnership in support of improved student performance in middle school mathematics. Thanks to funding from the New Jersey Department of Education, in partnership with Rutgers-Newark...

Investment in Quality Elementary Math Program Pays Off at Kansas District.
With Everyday Mathematics, Andover Public Schools Outperform State Average for Math Scores ANDOVER, Kan., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Andover Public School District has been a consistently high-achieving district. After implementing Wright Group/McGraw-Hill's Everyday Mathematics(R) in Grades K-5, the percentage of elementary students passing the Kansas Math Assessment...

The Book of numbers.
Is GOD A MATHEMATICIAN? by MARIO LIVIO Simon & Schuster, 320 pages, $26 WHEN IT COMES TO mathematics, two things seem evident. First, a great many people have nothing but negative feelings about it. There is probably no other subject about which people...

Math explains survival of beetles: new equations show why competing species can coexist.
WASHINGTON -- Placing two species of flour beetle in the same jar of flour needn't always result in one species driving the other to extinction, as ecologists have thought. A new mathematical model presented January 5 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings shows how competing species can sometimes coexist. ...

TI-Nspire(TM) graphing calculator approved for use On International Baccalaureate exams.
Next-generation math tool also accepted on Praxis teacher certification tests DALLAS, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- International Baccalaureate (IB) students now can use TI's latest mathematics tool, the TI-Nspire(TM) learning handheld, to inspire critical thinking in class and on exams. With its acceptance on IB exams, the TI-Nspire...

Video Games in Schools to Help Millions of Students Improve Math Skills.
Pearson and Tabula Digita Partner to Link DimensionM Educational Games to Nation's #1 Math Program ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of students around the country will now have the opportunity to leverage their mastery of video game skills to raise their math scores thanks to...

Tabula Digita Introduces New DimensionM Multiplayer 2.0, Educational Video Games for Grades 3-12.
New Release Covers 200 Math Skills Ranging from Elementary to High School; Enhanced Reporting Features and Improved Educator Portal NEW YORK, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Students who love learning through the use of video games will score big this year as Tabula Digita, the leading developer of...

Finding where criminals live by the numbers: mathematician combines calculations with geography.
WASHINGTON -- Math as a tool to track down criminals has never been as precise as the TV show NUMB3RS depicts. But mathematicians are developing better ways to estimate where a person on a crime spree might live. Using information about the layout of a city, such...