RM Math Framework Edition is a whole-class teaching system which utilizes interactive whiteboard technology to deliver a dynamic, highly visual and standards-aligned middle school math curriculum.Consisting of more than 2,000 high-quality math activities which are aligned to both NCTM and State-based curriculum learning standards as well as powerful teaching and planning tools, RM Math Framework Edition can transform classroom instruction, engage and motivate students, and help you to focus teaching and learning closely around State-based learning standards.
RM Math Framework Edition is different from many other information technology-based systems in that it is a whole - class teaching solution. This means that the math teacher remains very much at the center of the instructional process.
Features
Dynamic Whole - Class Teaching
RM Math Framework Edition can transform classroom instruction, with resources that will engage and motivate students with all different learning styles, and teacher tools that can dramatically boost classroom productivity.
Transform the middle and/or high school Math classroom with a comprehensive digital curriculum designed for whole class teaching.
• Search over 4,000 digital resources by way of state standards or keyword
• Motivate your students by encouraging them to “touch the math” through content rich activities created using GSP, Mathematica and RM Easiteach
• Access material that covers all NCTM strands thru Calculus
Transform Classroom Productivity
In this Lightning Reactions activity, for example, students are challenged to test their reaction speeds by turning off the lamps as soon as they appear and then to use the reaction speed data to explore the meaning of averages such as Mean, Median and Range. This stimulating activity for the students allows the teacher to generate primary data in a matter of just seconds, preserving the bulk of classroom time for discussion and analysis of the data, rather than the process of gathering data.
Animations and 'Virtual' Manipulatives
A wide range of animations and 'virtual' manipulatives, such as the 3D Shape Explorer activity, can also be very time saving, and supplement or replace the use of physical manipulatives. These highly visual resources can greatly aid student retention.
RM Easiteach Math Toolbar
Discovering the RM Easiteach math toolbar is often a eureka moment for most math teachers. Using the math toolbar, teachers can instantly create graphs, number grids, interactive number lines, interlocking place value cards, fractions, symbols… the list goes on. The RM Easiteach Math Toolbar gives teachers all of the resources they need right at their fingertips and can make an enormous difference to classroom productivity.
RM Easiteach Math
The RM Math Framework Edition curriculum includes hundreds of interactive RM Easiteach lessons. See the RM Easiteach Math section of our web site for further details of all of the exciting features of RM Easiteach and the RM Easiteach Math toolbar.
Key Benefits
Here are some of the many ways your school or school district will benefit from using RM Math Framework Edition:
Align Teaching and Learning to State Learning Standards
RM Math Framework Edition has been designed to focus teaching and learning directly to State standards. All of the curriculum resources are tagged to individual State standards, and the planning tools encourage teachers to teach, and to develop curricula and lesson plans, around the standards.
- State standards implemented within a powerful teaching and planning tool
- Content aligned to State standards
- Search tools that enable you to located resources by standards
- Add your own resources and tag them to State standards
- Test tool which enables you to easily measure student attainment to standards
- Electronic gradebooks monitor student performance by standards
Transform Teaching Productivity
RM Math Framework Edition puts all of the resources that teachers need directly at their fingertips and enables teachers to concentrate much more time on students and the teaching and learning process rather than on time-consuming administrative tasks.
- A comprehensive set of easy-to-use math tools (e.g. graph, number line and fractions tools)
- Dynamic easily-accessible standards-aligned content that supports all learning standards
- Planning tools that simplify curriculum development and student tracking
Motivate and Engage Students
RM Math Framework Edition can transform math teaching and learning enabling teachers to deliver fast-paced, highly visual, highly interactive math lessons that can stimulate and engage students and address all learning styles.
- Dynamic, highly visual math content
- Faster-paced lessons with a greater variety of resources
- Use of interactive technologies enables students to kinesthetically participate and “touch and feel” the math
- Compelling math games that encourage a friendly level of student competition
- Students report that RM Math Framework Edition makes math lessons “fun” and “exciting”
Promote Best Practice
RM Math Framework Edition has been designed to promote collaboration and sharing of best practice, both within the school and across the district.
- Easily share exemplar resources, courses and lessons
- Tests and other materials can be re-used and re-purposed for differentiation
- Planning tools facilitate the development of your own differentiated exemplar curricula
- Online tools extend teacher collaboration beyond the school or district
Integrate IT Within the Curriculum
RM Math Framework Edition is highly sophisticated, but very friendly technology which augmented by professional development training and comprehensive teacher notes for each activity can help you to effectively integrate IT within your curriculum, even when your IT infrastructure is limited or where your staff have little IT experience. The benefits of effective use of IT can be significant:
- Clear productivity gains
- Courses and lessons that are differentiated and more engaging for your students
- Recruitment and retention of staff
- Very tangible return on investment for the school or district
Improve Student Performance and Test Scores
RM Math Framework Edition works. Evidence from an extensive pilot study of RM Math Framework Edition within the UK, where the product has been in use since about 2003, showed the following:
- Significant increases in attainment gains for students.
- Noted improvements in student motivation, as well as other improvements such as attendance and general behavior.
- Teachers also noted how much they enjoyed teaching with RM Math Framework Edition
- A number of prestigious awards, including the renowned 2005 BETT award.
Use RM Math Framework Edition as a core or supplementary resource for your middle or high school math program
RM Math Framework Edition for middle school provides high quality Math activities aligned to both NCTM and state standards. Curriculum and teaching tools are provided for:
• Algebra
• Numbers & Operations
• Data Analysis & Probability
• Measurement
• Geometry
RM Math Framework Edition for high school offers standards-aligned curriculum and teaching tools for:
• Algebra I
• Algebra II
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Pre-Calculus
• Calculus
System Requirements
For Windows:
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2
Windows XP Pro SP2
Windows Vista
650MB hard disk space, extra disk space is needed for each content pack
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