About the Interactive Maths Series Software

The Interactive Maths Series (Second Edition) software helps improve and speed up the learning of mathematics for students at all levels of mathematical ability.  The software's eLearning approach achieves this by:

• Providing question by question feedback in response to student answers to alert students to mistakes straight away.
• Providing carefully prepared step-by-step solutions to every question from the interactive exercises in the author's proven writing style, no matter how easy or difficult the question.

• Constantly tracking student performance through the Analysis of Past Performance window with performance highlighted in three bands that include outstanding, satisfactory and revision required.  Performance against the New Zealand curriculum learning outcomes can be measured with the NZ Outcomes indicators showing the level of difficulty of exercise questions and the syllabus strands and sub-strands that the exercises relate to.  For example, the screen below shows that some Fractions exercises relate to level 4 of the curriculum, the Number and Algebra strand and its Number Strategies sub-strand (4.N&A.NS).  Some other exercises relate to level 5 of the curriculum, the Number and Algebra strand and its Number Strategies and Knowledge sub-strand (5.N&A.NS&K).

• Providing extensive support reading material in the form of mathematical theory and examples that are closely integrated with the relevant interactive exercise.
• Indexing and hyperlinking key mathematical terms to ensure explanations are not far away and concepts are reinforced across different chapters.
• Adopting a simple software interface that uses a fewest clicks approach to ensure students focus on learning and writing mathematics rather than using a computer.

The Interactive Maths Series software gives students the chance to learn mathematical concepts better and faster than is possible from their classroom textbook.

More about the Series

• On average, each interactive exercise draws upon 3000+ randomised questions to provide different students with fresh challenges.  However, a student is encouraged to follow the software's default recommended number of questions for each exercise.
• Students of different ability are able to progress at their own pace.
• Teachers or tutors can generate randomised worksheets and their solutions or example sheets to print within seconds.  Questions can also be selected across exercises and chapters to quickly produce worksheets, tests, solutions and interactive revision exercises using the Create Revision Material feature.

Click Mathematics Software Tutorials to watch 2 tutorials that show how students use the mathematics software and 4 tutorials that explain some of the software features available to teachers and tutors.

Software Requirements

The Interactive Maths Series (Second Edition) works with Microsoft® Windows 7, Vista™, XP and 2000 and Apple® Mac® OS X v10.3-10.7.  For more information about the software platform, click Software Requirements.

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