The Symphony Maths software program helps students develop a solid foundation in number conceptualization and maths operations. Symphony Maths systematically helps students improve maths concepts, fluency, procedures and applications.

Symphony Maths is a developmental intervention. The program seeks to find where a student’s maths skill development is along several conceptual pathways and join him or her at that point. This enables the program to provide problem-solving activities that meet the student at the appropriate level of skill or slightly beyond. As the student progresses the program provides increasingly complex challenges along each developmental pathway

 

Symphony Maths tracks student progress at a fine level in order to adapt to the specific needs of each student. The program adapts to each student’s level of conceptual understanding, learning style, contextual proficiency, and content mastery. One student may be a visual learner who is strong with concepts but weak with number relationships. Another student may be more of a verbal learner who is strong with procedures but weak on applications. Symphony Maths identifies these needs and provides the appropriate individualized intervention.

 

Symphony Maths systematically addresses proficiency with concepts, procedures, fluency and applications. Each of these skills are interrelated and addressed by the program in a systematic manner. This approach avoids the common dichotomy of teaching concepts versus teaching procedures. Students need more than a one track emphasis as they bring a variety of learning profiles to the endeavor of becoming mathematically proficient.

 

Symphony Maths is designed to be intrinsically motivating. The program seeks to engage and motivate students by emphasizing the interesting patterns and conceptual links of mathematics. Students are challenged to make links and identify patterns in order to discover the inherent order and systematicity of mathematics. We believe that if students’ attention is drawn towards discovering the fundamental nature of maths and its applications that this will sustain their interest more profoundly than cartoon characters or computer animations.

 

Symphony Math®: New Tools Coming 16 January 2012

The new version of Symphony Maths® offers a three-step program that identifies and supports students who need help in math.

Screen | Benchmark | Intervene

Screening

• Fully-integrated test determines which Students are at risk for math failure

• Can be group-administered to all students

  in a district

• Offers a multi-skill assessment based on the Common Core State Standards.

  
  
  Benchmarking

• Fully-integrated computer adaptive test

• Provides a baseline for intervention and progress monitoring.

• Administer in 20 minutes, 3 times a year, with instant results.

• Provides grade-level, standard score, and percentile rank.

New Reports

• Track At-risk status of Schools, Grades,

   Classes, and Students

• Track Benchmarking data across Schools,

   Grades, and Classes

• View Student Progress from the Benchmarker Student Progress Graph

 

Demographics

• Categorize students by the most common demographic categories

• Custom fields for school- or district-specific categories

• Constrain any Symphony Math report by any combination of demographic categories