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Our Math Programs

 

 Neurocognitive programs for improving math skills target the underlying cognitive and language skills necessary for strong math performance.

 

Aurora offers research-based math instruction - a therapeutic approach to teaching math.

 The 1990's brough significant research and findings on the underlying causes of reading disabilities and dyslexia.  Math challenges are just now being researched, but we do know that strong math skills require strong language and cognitive skills.  Because of that, we offer two leading math instructional programs that are based on improving the language and visual skills required for math.

Our math programs begin with number concepts and continue through Geometry and Algebra. 

 

Lindamood Bell On Cloud Nine Math®  The On Cloud Nine® Math: A Visualizing/Verbalizing Math Program developed by Kimberly Tuley and Nanci Bell, successfully stimulates the ability to image and verbalize the concepts underlying math processes

 

 

Math Makes Sense® by Sound Reading Solutions

 

 

   Baltimore City Schools placed 300 of their most at-risk math students on Math Makes Sense! In 4 months the students had made almost a year’s progress.
   Their teachers reported that the students became eager for math lessons and asked to do word problems!
 

 

 

 

When Math Makes Sense and Math Facts are Automatic

The solution for struggling math students with their memory issues, math anxiety, avoidance behaviors, and problems with number sense is a balanced approach to math.  To solve math problems from addition to algebra, students need math memory — facts and procedures — coordinated with meaning — concepts, number sense and strategies.

 

Consistent with new ideas about learning mathematics …..number sense and concepts, skills and strategy use must grow and develop in a coordinated manner for successful representation and problem solving to occur” 

      Dr. Curtis L. Pyke, The George Washington University

 

This is the Math Makes Sense! solution. A balanced approach to math memory and meaning for maximized problem solving. Math Makes Sense! is the first program to align with NCTM Focal Points.  Math Makes Sense! focuses on developing number sense, the key to understanding and enjoying math instruction.

 Number sense:

·          is the foundation from which all other mathematical concepts and ideas arise.

·          is good intuition about numbers and their relationships.

·          not only leads to automatic use of math information, but also is a key ingredient in the ability to solve basic arithmetic computations.

Dr. Russell Gersten, Eugene Research Institute and Dr. David Chard, University of Tex


 
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