PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Attucks Elementary School, Bass Elementary School, Burke Elementary School, Hamline Elementary School, Piccolo Elementary Specialty School and Thomas Chalmers Specialty School are pioneering a new way students learn and comprehend math within Chicago Public Schools. These students will develop cross-disciplinary problem solving skills to better comprehend abstract and concrete math concepts, and increase their national and state test scores. To accomplish this goal, Chicago Public Schools has partnered with Apangea Learning, a leading provider of cost-effective differentiated math instruction.

Apangea Learning SmartHelp Math provides one-student-to-one-teacher differentiated math instruction by combining proprietary tutoring technology that emulates tutoring best practices with online instruction from live, certified teachers. It utilizes a skills-based problem solving process that teaches students how to systematically break down problems into manageable steps. SmartHelp is based on one of the world's largest bodies of cognitive research.

"SmartHelp has enabled a number of large urban school districts to help their most challenging students achieve academic success, including Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia and the District of Columbia," stated Apangea Learning CEO Louis Piconi. "We are very excited to be an integral part of The Chicago Public Schools' pilot program to dramatically raise student achievement."

About Apangea Learning: Apangea Learning is setting a new standard in the way students learn. The company's groundbreaking SmartHelp tutoring solution enables students to dramatically improve achievement at the most cost-effective price. SmartHelp provides differentiated math instruction for every student via a multi-tiered escalation model that integrates its intelligent tutoring system and live one-on-one human tutors. It utilizes innovative Web-based technology that engages students and teaches essential problem-solving skills. Apangea Learning's solutions are based on one of the world's largest bodies of cognitive research and are aligned to both the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and with individual state math standards. Visit Apangea Learning on the Web at http://www.apangealearning.com.

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SOURCE Apangea Learning
02/27/2008 09:38