Discovery Education Math Techbook™
By Discovery Education

MSRP
$45-55 per student for six years

Math Techbook, the latest addition to Discovery Education’s award-winning line of digital textbooks, transforms the way students and teachers experience math through engaging instructional strategies and real-world problems that motivate and excite students with diverse learning styles.

Discovery Education’s new Math Techbook is the latest in the company’s award-winning, interactive digital textbook series. This new core instructional resource is designed to replace traditional hardcopy textbooks and is built from the ground up aligned to individual state and Common Core State Standards.

The most comprehensive math resource on the market for educators and students, Math Techbook empowers teachers with curriculum, instructional tools, and assessment support, and provides students hands-on activities, engaging videos and digital resources.  Its instructional sequence – Discover, Practice, Apply – aligns directly with the Publishers’ Criteria for Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, which requires a blend of conceptual understanding, procedural fluency and application.

The development of Math Techbook was informed by an extensive series of field tests as well as Discovery Education’s Math Techbook Advisory Board, a diverse group of distinguished education thought leaders. Participants included active teachers, K-12 school administrators, higher education professionals, and leaders of key national and regional education organizations, who provided advice, counsel and feedback to ensure the digital textbook provides educators with relevant resources that positively impact student engagement and achievement.

Math Techbook includes exclusive content and curriculum developed by Discovery Education experts, and brings the world of math into classrooms, sparking students’ curiosity and demonstrating the real-life applications of math. With its videos, photographs, games and embedded digital tools, students are more engaged in math than they’ve ever been with a traditional, static textbook. The series is cloud-based and platform-neutral, working with whatever hardware a school district has – iPad, tablet, mobile device, laptop or desktop. 

Benefits to the Homeowner

Math Techbook meets tech savvy students in the digital environment where they live while igniting their curiosity and promoting critical thinking. The digital textbook provides multiple paths through which students can learn content. The text, video, images, interactives, and hands-on activities are organized in a way that supports every style of learning while giving students the confidence to approach new concepts and tackle tough problems.

Math Techbook also excites students with dynamic content that is multisensory and interactive and increases their motivation to learn math, such as:

•    The “Play” tool which includes game-like activities for students to practice their skills and earn badges and points.

•        Digital interactives which enables students to understand math concepts and build procedural fluency. Procedural fluency is the ability to apply math procedures accurately, efficiently, and flexibly.

Math Techbook engages students in real-world problems through:

•    An Inquiry-based instructional approach which starts with a question for students to investigate that connects math to real life

•    Custom videos that open each unit and accompany problems for students to solve, bringing the world of math into the classroom

Math Techbook is a comprehensive solution that offers students all necessary resources in one location. In addition to dynamic, Common Core standards-aligned content, interactives, videos, and game-like activities that increase students’ motivation to learn math, Math Techbook includes useful student tools such as a graphing calculator, a geometry tool, a whiteboard tool, and a matrix solver.  A Student Dashboard embedded into the services helps students track their individual progress and take responsibility for their learning.

Additionally, students and parents have 24/7 access to Math Techbook at home.  Students can use it to work on assignments and review concepts learned in class, while parents can both assist their child and monitor their progress.

Benefits to the Integrator
Math Techbook’s innovative all-in-one design saves teachers time with model lessons, a wide array of real-world problems and teacher notes. The notes include tips for classroom discussion, as well as ways to demonstrate mathematical practices. In addition, Math Techbook features the newest generation of technology enhanced items (computer-delivered items that include specialized interactions for collecting response data) and formative assessments throughout the instructional cycle that help prepare students for high-stakes assessments. Real-time feedback and easy-to-read data on the Teacher Dashboard make it easier for educators to differentiate instruction and support the success of each learner.

Discovery Education also includes comprehensive professional development with every edition, ensuring teachers are knowledgeable and confident implementing Techbook in the classroom. To support the effective integration of digital textbooks into classroom instruction, Discovery Education provides each educator using the Math Techbook with job-embedded professional development. This professional development not only helps educators explore the engaging resources within Discovery Education Math Techbook, but also provides the strategies needed to engage students in inquiry-based instruction, math investigations, and collaborative, real-world problem-solving.

Model lessons embedded throughout Math Techbook assist educators and provide them with the flexibility to add their own lessons and activities. Math Techbook can be used in any technology configuration – where a school has one device per student or one device per classroom. The well-structured, easy-to-use interface makes the program appropriate for the traditional classroom as well as for individual study. Math Techbook is also substantially less expensive per student than a traditional textbook. The average life span of a textbook is 6 years. Traditional textbooks average $70 per student, but Math Techbook is approximately $45-55 per student.

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