Students Answer More Than Four Billion Math Questions Correctly on VmathLive
DALLAS, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Expanded Learning(R) announced
today that students logged in to VmathLive(R), the company's math technology
platform, have answered more than four billion math questions correctly since
the program's inception. To view the exact number of questions answered
correctly visit www.vmathlive.com .
"Our children really enjoy competing with other students from around the
world on VmathLive," says Joe Nelson, principal at Pass Christian Middle
School in Pass Christian, Mississippi. "They have even competed against their
own classmates and students from neighboring districts."
Students reached the exceptionally high number through participation in
daily, online math challenges with students from around the world. Annual
World Math Day events also contributed to the growing number of correctly
answered math questions.
During World Math Days in 2007 and 2008, students answered a combined
total of 221,359,444 correctly. The world-wide online event is held every
March and hosted by Voyager Expanded Learning and 3P Learning. World Math Day
2009 is Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Registration for the event begins February
1, 2009 and runs through March 1, 2009 at www.worldmathday.com .
VmathLive extends the time students spend learning and practicing
essential math automaticity and concept development skills. The interactive
environment motivates and engages math students, reinforces the same concepts
and skills taught in core math programs and provides practice in a high-stakes
test format.
The topics and content in VmathLive are aligned to Voyager's math
intervention system, Vmath(R), and includes opportunities for students to
prepare for high-stakes assessments in an engaging and motivating environment.
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental
reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional
development programs, for school districts throughout the United States.
Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills
intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading and math programs, to
more than 1000 school districts in cities such as Buffalo, Miami, New York
City, Richmond, Va., El Paso and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically
improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is a business
unit of Voyager Learning Company (OTC: VLCY.PK) and based in Dallas, Texas.
For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-
1995.
