Elevated Math
By Elevated Lab Press
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Description
Elevated Math provides initial instruction or intervention on math topics that cover place value, estimation, large digit addition all the way through Algebra I (two years of math instruction!).
The app comes with two complimentary lessons and one complimentary career video. Besides these lessons the user must purchase additional lessons individually or in bundles.
The use of this app is restricted to non-commercial individual use.
Student print materials and Teachers' Notes for all lessons are available for download from the developer's website - www.elevatedmath.com.
With the hands-on uniqueness of the iPad platform, students are more engaged than ever, learning at their own pace and moving on with no gaps. And built within the graphic and cartoon animation, multiple voices, and lesson landscape of the Elevated Math app is a whiteboard for working out math problems.
Lessons are grouped into five math standards and are designed to conform to those recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), state departments of educations, and the Common Core State Standards Initiative for developing concepts for grades 4-8. The lessons cover:
- Numbers and Operations – 40 lessons on whole number operations, integers, fractions, decimals, factors, decimal operations, exponents, powers, computational fluency of fractions, ratio, proportion, and percent.
- Measurement – 12 lessons on attributes and tools (the units, systems, processes, applications of measurement, and estimation), and perimeter, area, and volume.
- Geometry – 22 lessons on points, lines, angles and triangles, characteristics of geometric shapes, coordinate geometry and spatial visualization, and transformation of shapes
- Algebra – 90 lessons covering the concepts found in a middle grade Algebra 1 class. Patterns are represented and analyzed, and linear functions are represented with tables, graphs, verbal rules, and symbolic rules. Nonlinear relationships are studied, as are polynomial, exponential, and rational functions. Expressions are manipulated and simplified, and equations and inequalities are solved. And much more…
- Data analysis and probability – 9 lessons include selecting and using appropriate statistical methods for data analysis, developing inferences and predictions based on data, and applying basic concepts of probability typically covered in grades 6-8.
Top college entrance exam tutors have bundled specific lessons deemed highly relevant for raising SAT and ACT test scores.
Included in the app are a series of career-oriented live-action videos that answer the frequent question: “Why do we need to learn this stuff?” These documentaries focus on individuals who are using math in their jobs and include a jazz musician, a stunt pilot, an animator, a landscape architect, a chocolatier, and fifteen others.
For more information, to download the complete scope and sequence, read endorsements, access teacher notes and student print materials, or follow our blog go to www.elevatedmath.com.
What's New in Version 1.0.3
Bug fixes that address:
* Download Hanging
* Stuck in "Installing" mode
* Career Films audio continuing playback
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Customer Reviews
Astounding!
The amount of material in this app is mind-blowing! Supposedly two full years of middle school math are contained in this app. I've downloaded quite a few of the lessons just to spot check their quality and I find NO faults. I'm now letting my son watch these lessons to help with his schoolwork. I've gotten no complaints for him and he is now saying that he actually likes math! The cost of the lessons is nothing compared to what I would have to spend for a tutor AND scheduling the time. I highly recommend this app.
Not Free
You can download the app free but each lesson in $1.99. I wish they would disclose that up front.
Serious instruction. Not a toy.
Logging on to write my review, I'm confused by other negative reviews. I downloaded the free app, tested the two free lessons, and was interested in the additional lessons aligned to the 5 NCTM strands. Comparative to what our school pays for other alternative instruction, this is fairly cheap. I purchased the entire content myself and am extremely pleased with my purchase!!!
It took me a second to realize the swipe feature used to navigate through lesson content. I wish there was a tutorial - but it's still fairly common sense.
The videos are engaging enough for students to connect with and rigorous enough that I'm challenged by them - and I teach this stuff!
My advice to anyone looking for iPad delivered math instruction is to try out the free lessons and look at this as serious instruction, not your average iPad app math toy.
Or better yet, do what I did and let a kid take a look at the lessons. That's when you'll see how it blows anything else out of the water!
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: Sep 26, 2011
- Version: 1.0.3
- Size: 3.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Elevated Lab Press
- © Elevated Lab Press 2011
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Top In-App Purchases
- A1.1 Defining Sets and Real Numbers$1.99
- M1.1 Order of Operations$1.99
- M7.4 Ratios, Rates and Proportional Reasoning$1.99
- M4.1 Concepts of Fractions, Ratios and Percents$1.99
- A4.1 Translating Sentences into Algebraic Equations$1.99
- A1.2 Simplifying Expressions with Integers$1.99
- B14 Elevated Math Lessons$249.99
- M13.2 Area$1.99
- A2.1 Using the Language of Algebra$1.99
- M4.5 Simplifying and Converting Fractions$1.99
