Extreme Math

The San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park will launch an exciting new exhibit this weekend.

2theXtreme–MathAlive! opens January 31 and features all kinds of real-world math in action.

Designed for families and students, the exhibition brings to life the real math behind what kids love most – video games, sports, fashion, music, robotics and more – and creates interactive and immersive experiences that bring to life the math at work in each, whether in design, application or hands-on use.
Read more and watch a preview video at http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/exhibits/exhibition.php?id=15

For educators, the museum is offering group tours of the exhibit, a preview video, and a
Teacher's Activity Guide.
 
This idea guide can be printed by activity or in its entirety. Download MathAlive Activity PDF

The activities in the Teacher's Activity Guide can be used before or after your visit to the exhibit. They are designed for teachers as well as community group leaders and museum educators who work with upper elementary and middle school-aged students.

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Visit Excel Math at the 2015 Title I Conference

Title I celebrates 50 years in 2015!

This year the National Title I Conference will be held at the  Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, and Excel Math will be there!

The convention runs from February 5 - 8 in the beautiful state of Utah. The conference theme is Leading with Wonder.

Inspiration for the 2015 National Title I Conference theme comes from President Johnson’s comments at the signing of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, creating Title I:

“Remember the magic time when the world of learning began to open before our eyes.” 

 
The silhouette is a bit dark, but all of those thought bubbles in the conference logo on the right are spilling from the head of a person, shown on the bottom left.


Bob and Brad will be representing Excel Math at the Title I Conference. Be sure to stop by Excel Math booth #537 to say hello and pick up some chocolate.

Or, if you've started a New Year's resolution to avoid sweets, we'll be glad to send you our Excel Math Placement Test for Grades 1 - 6 at no charge (for FREE). Just add your email address to our sign-up list at the show.

Excel Math is proven as a core or as a supplement. (And we offer affordable Professional Development with insider tips for using Excel Math.)

The Excel Math lessons are effective in a traditional classroom, for GATE students, for intervention and remediation, for individualized instruction, and even as a tutoring program.

This flexibility combines with a unique spiraling strategy and our CheckAnswer tool for self-assessment to build student confidence and success in math.                                             
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Searching for Excellent Common Core Math Lessons

As the new year begins, parents and teachers are looking for a powerful math curriculum that will teach to the new standards: Common Core, TEKS, or . . . (name your state). 

 

Savvy educators across the country (and around the world) recognize that Excel Math lessons can deliver amazing results.

The Spiraling process built into Excel Math lessons helps students retain math concepts for the long term. For this reason, students who use Excel Math often score better on state tests than other students.

Excel Math's unique CheckAnswer system lets students self-assess and move ahead at their own pace. Students discover they not only can do math, they also enjoy it! Excel Math lessons build student confidence and success in math— including success on assessments.

The Excel Math Common Core Edition teaches to the Common Core State Standards, and the new Excel Math Texas Edition teaches to the new TEKS. Teachers in other states can use the Excel Math Standard Edition. Excel Math has a proven track record of success.

As a result, Excel Math students are testing off the charts in mathematics.

Here's what one mom wrote to tell us:

"My daughter struggled with grasping math concepts until she started with Excel Math in her new school.

It just "clicked" with her and she now maintains a 99% average overall in math! Before using Excel Math, she wouldn't have cared whether she had her homework done or not.

Now she completes her math homework first because the instant feedback of the 'CheckAnswers' allows her to locate and fix any mistakes on her own. She no longer has to wait for the teacher to grade her work to find out if she 'gets it'. Excel Math offers her a level of control that is often missing in other math curricula."

— a grateful mom in Belleville, Pennsylvania

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Questions about how Excel Math lessons work? Try our free math placement test for Grades 1-6. Leave a comment below with your email address and we'll send it to you or follow this link: Excel Math Placement Test.

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