CARNEGIE LEARNING™ DEVELOPMENTAL MATH SOLUTIONS
The Need for Developmental Education in Mathematics
According to the Alliance for Excellent Education, the United States loses more than $3.7 billion a year because students are not learning in high school the basic skills that are needed to enter college or the workforce. Each year 1.4 billion of those dollars is used to provide remediation to recent high school graduates. Almost one-third of all college freshmen take at least one remedial course a year. These remedial students are likely to drop out of post-secondary education without a degree, thus decreasing their earning potential, and depleting the economy of $2.4 billion a year.
Community colleges must adapt to the needs of the students, from working adults to young undergrads, arriving on campus anxious to move ahead but not yet ready for college math. All students can achieve proficiency in mathematics with Carnegie Learning™ Developmental Math Solutions. Our solution provides students of all ages and skill levels with highly individualized and self-paced instruction to quickly achieve competency skills.
Carnegie Learning Developmental Math Solutions provides interactive instruction in these math courses: Cognitive Tutor® Prealgebra and Cognitive Tutor® Algebra. Our software provides the skills and instruction typically taught in Pre-Algebra, Elementary and Intermediate developmental math courses.
Key Features and Benefits:
- Continuous formative assessments
- All student actions are mapped to one or more underlying cognitive skills
- Cognitive Tutor® software picks activities for students to optimize time students' spend working on skills they have not mastered
- Progression through the curriculum is based on mastery of individual skills
- Custom curriculum sequencing
- Curriculum can be re-ordered by unit
- Units can be added and deleted
- New sequences can be named and re-used
- Multiple representations — Problem scenarios appeal to students of all abilities and learning styles
- Non-traditional approach — Instructional focus is on process and product
- Offers engaging real-world scenarios
- Embedded content and Interactive examples drive students step-wise through problems
- Integrates assessment and instruction by continuously tracking and measuring student progress and then delivering problems & activities based on student engagement
- Negates the need to assign and grade traditional homework
- Tracks all student activity in the software and the instructor can intervene at any time
A subscription to Carnegie Learning Developmental Math Solutions includes the following:
- Student License for the Cognitive Tutor software
- Access to Carnegie Learning™ Instructor’s Toolkit, a simple to use learning management system for enrolling students and monitoring their progress. Additionally, instructors have access to Carnegie Learning™ Resource Center for materials like correlation documents, implementation guides, etc.
Please refer to the Cognitive Tutor Overview to learn more about our adaptive software. For more information, please contact us.
