Agile Mind actively collaborates with the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and other leading research institutions, to develop strategies to successfully increase the number and diversity of students who succeed in the field of mathematics. We are proud to share the news recently announced by the White House that …Continue Reading »
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—Agile Mind and the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin announced today the launch of Agile Assessment 5.0. Agile Assessment has been used by more than 350 districts, 10,000 educators, and 500,000 students nationwide. Developed by the organizations that led the successful and widely praised prototyping of items for …Continue Reading »
College Spark Washington recently announced a $12 million investment over seven years in a new College-Ready Math Initiative to help low-income students graduate high school with the math skills needed to avoid remediation and succeed in college. “The majority of high school students are placed in remedial math in college and fewer than half of those …Continue Reading »
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—Agile Mind and the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin today announced the launch of the TEKS Toolbox website, which can be found online at: www.tekstoolbox.com. This site is a resource designed to support districts working to meet the challenge and the opportunity of the Texas Essential Knowledge and …Continue Reading »
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—Agile Mind Common Core Algebra I and Common Core Middle School Mathematics have been approved by the California Department of Education and identified as meeting the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. In the months ahead, districts across the state begin the hard work of selecting programs that will best meet their needs. They …Continue Reading »
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—The Texas Education Agency instructional review panel has approved for adoption Agile Mind Middle School Mathematics 7 & 8 and Biology programs, which were specifically designed to fully support the expectations of the new Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). “We are excited to offer Texas schools these core programs, which lay the groundwork …Continue Reading »
From Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, NC—Exact measurements can be crucial to a crime scene. Investigators spend a great deal of time measuring distance, weight, temperature, volume and other aspects of evidence to get the numbers correct. In a recent activity, students used their knowledge of numbers to determine the height, weight and gender of a ‘missing person’ …Continue Reading »