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1.** MAP Assessments from Northwest Evaluation Association** Tools to measure student growth over time.
 * Click here to view a video about MAP(r) Assessments Overview!**

2.** Renzulli Learning (tm) -** Provides student profiler product and teacher reource database to match differentiated learning activities to student needs and interests.

3.** Livescribe -** Create a "pen cast" that records a student (or teacher) completing a math problem while explaining the thinking behind the procedure. I (Kim) saw a demonstration of how this can be used to examine student work and student thinking as a professional development activity for teachers to talk about misunderstandings that students have about math, and discuss how to correct these misunderstandings through instruction.

4. **OpenCourseWare from [] The** CK12.org FlexBooks are currenlty developed for grades 6-8, and the group plans to continue to develop for additional grades in descending order. They are interactive and can be customized by the math staff. Also, the books are FREE. Khan Academy is one of many other resources that could be used.

5. **C8 Sciences - Cognition Cross-training for children and adults Committee members are encouraged to visit their web site and sign up for one of their free informational webinars.** C8 Sciences creates programs to dramatically improve the Eight Core Cognitive Capacities that are the foundation for all learning. Our new program C8Kids is especially effective providing early assessment and improvement for children challenged by learning difficulties such as ADHD.

C8Kids is based on collaboration between one of the world's foremost neuroscientists at Yale University and an internationally-recognized professor of sports science at Peking University. It is "cognition cross-training" - the integration of computer-based brain training with physical exercises specifically designed to improve cognitive abilities, and it is producing remarkable benefits for children of all ability levels. C8Kids has the potential to level the playing field for millions of students with learning difficulties and to help schools show achievement gains for all their students.

6. **ST MATH: MIND Research** is non-profit Neuroscience based Math supplement, cross platform software program is changing the way children learn and retain mathematical knowledge.MIND is based off of neuroscientific, mathematics, and education research to improve math education and advance scientific understanding. []

ST Math product family employs the learners’ spatial temporal reasoning abilities to explain, understand, and solve multi-step math problems. The language barrier to learning math is eliminated, and the program has proven uniquely engaging and effective with students at every level of math and language proficiency. ST Math is a self-paced, innovative, neuroscience Mathematic supplement. ST Math teaches math concepts in a in a visual way while begin designed to meet the common core standards. The instructional design reaches students at every level of academic proficiency.

Here are the latest Google Alerts over the past few weeks along with our co-founder Matthew Peterson TEDX video. - Co-founder Matthew Petersen at a TEDx conference __ (approx. 8mins) __ -[] - District Administration: Higher scores and lower frustration levels - [] - ST Math admitted to New National "STEM WORKS' Database for Corporate Investors [] Change the Equation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, CEO-led initiative that is mobilizing the business community to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning in the United States. CTEq's is led by some of the most prominent business leaders in America; ExxonMobile, Xerox, Accenture and Time Warner Cable. - Cohort of Florida Students Shows Dramatic Improvements in Math Proficiency [] ST Math Delivers Outstanding Results on Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in Orlando - Cisco Blog: What helps Students Love Math? [] Cisco, MIND Partner To Bring Math Program to Arizona Schools

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