“… Eastern Oklahoma State College’s GEAR UP for Success grant is making a significant commitment to Oklahoma’s future by bringing TI MathForward to two dozen rural schools,” said Steven Bailey, director of new business development for TI’s Education Technology business. “The TI MathForward program creates a classroom environment where teachers use technology to enable all students to become actively engaged while achieving a deeper understanding of math.…”
“… A strategic partnership with Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) also proved most beneficial. The school district purchased the company's standards-driven math-learning strategy, TI MathForward™, at Cochrane and other schools in Charlotte in 2008. The TI MathForward program includes in-class coaching, professional development, administration training, curriculum alignment, and online resources, as well as hardware such as graphing calculators and the classroom network system…”
“… The Killeen Independent School District plans to expand a middle school math program credited with helping to boost test scores at a low-performing school.
The program, developed by Texas Instruments and known as TI MathForward, was implemented last year at Smith Middle School, where a district-low 62 percent of eighth-grade students met passing standards on the 2010 Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills math test.
Judging by the 74 percent of eighth-grade Smith students who passed this year's TAKS math test, district officials say they like what they see…”
