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This week we are in the beautiful state of Pennsylvania!

November 9th, 2011 by Sally

Ginny will be exhibiting at 60th annual Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of Mathematics. PCTM is an opportunity to network with colleagues from across the state, with the main focus on teaching and learning mathematics in Pennsylvania. Please stop by our booth November 10-11th to learn more about how Math-Whizz can raise achievement in your classroom. Our program is helping teachers deliver effective, individualized instruction for each student, whether struggling or advanced. Math-Whizz’s personalized, interactive and collaborative approach to teaching math is helping all students build the foundation they need to achieve proficiency in math. Math-Whizz can be beneficial in your classroom by:

- Providing differentiated instruction

- Allowing personalized learning for students at all levels

- Ability to login while in school or at home

To learn more about Math-Whizz content as well as to access sample exercises please visit our Math Pages.

Ginny Harbold is our Regional Sales Manager. She grew up in a small town in North Carolina and completed her B.A. in History and later Masters in Business Administration from Wake Forest University. Ginny’s career has always centered on education, from test preparation to higher education publishing to her current role with Math-Whizz. She lives in Maryland with a menagerie of animals and her 3 kids.

Show your working, the easy way…

December 3rd, 2009 by admin

WolframAlpha, the interesting ‘computational knowledge engine‘ launched earlier this year, has come up with a new doobry to interest lazy high-school and college math students everywhere…

Step-by-step math.

Users of the super-numerate search engine can henceforth select ‘show steps’ after submitting a particular math problem for a solution.

Google super-users have long known that you can get answers to sometimes complex questions via the google search box – try typing ’5 factorial’ or ’12 mph in cm/s’ – but WolframAlpha takes that computational whizzery to the next level.

Needless to say, most Math-Whizzers shouldn’t (yet) need the assistance of this service in solving, and showing the working for, how to find the roots of quadratic equations. But I suspect this will rapidly become one of the most (ab)used tools in the young mathematician’s armoury.

Use at your peril!


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