22.05.12
Trading flashcards for keyboards and notepads for computer screens, stand-in-graders are learning math differently in the Dallas Independent Dogma District.
Starting this school year, all second-graders are using a monogrammed computer-based math program called Reasoning Mind to appendage their regular math lessons. Next school year, district officials may around triple the number of students using the program by expanding it to the third and fourth grades. The fancy, district officials say, is to boost test scores and better get up students for algebra.
“We’re looking for the silver bullet that’s going to help us out. And suitably now, Reasoning Mind seems like it’s the silver bullet for math,” said Lew Blackburn, president of the DISD room of trustees.
Reasoning Mind, a Houston-based nonprofit putting together, was founded and developed by Russian mathematician Alexander Khachatryan. Funded at bottom by Texas philanthropists, many from oil and energy backgrounds, the program has been adopted by 331 schools in eight states, according to Explanation Mind. With about 14,000 second-grade students, Dallas ISD is its largest consort.
Source: Education Week News