References from ThinkSharp Users
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"When students examine data and simulate decisions
about whether a baby receives a life-saving therapy, you
can believe they become intensely focused!"
- Michael Grice (President, National
Council on Educating Black Children)
"A tantalizing glimpse of the myriad possibilities of applied mathematics."
- Myra R. Lipman (PACE University)
"Immediately captures the interest. The
problems used are intriguing." - Dorothy
Goldberg (Mathematics Teacher)
"For the first time since elementary school, I can
see mathematics as a practical tool with very real applications."
- Christy Huber (Fallston High School, Maryland)
"Seems to live up to its promise to put
the students on the frontier of research."
- David Fuys (Brooklyn College)
"I never put much thought into mathematics
and how it can really come in handy. ThinkSharp showed us that math actually is
used to save lives."
- Danielle Martin (Fallston High
School, Maryland)
"These concepts are the greatest. I think
I learned more than in all my previous math classes...and it answered the question
of "why are we learning this?"...strange thing is, we worked and learned
so much and had fun too." -
Jenni Nichols (Fallston High School, Maryland |
Taking Students to the Frontier and Beyond
Fallston,
Maryland: Landmark research, with the potential
to impact trauma care worldwide, set the stage for middle school students to learn
nine EmpowerMath concepts. Not only did the students learn the math - they extended
the medical model to include brain and kidney functions.
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EmpowerMath Students Form Company, Help Hosiery Manufacturer
Staples, Connecticut:
President award-winning teacher
Frank Corbo and his students from Staples High School
formed Staples Mathematical Consultants, Inc., and
used EmpowerMath concepts to predict national hosiery
consumption. Their success was profiled in the New
York Times!
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EmpowerMath Impacts 9th Graders
Portland
Oregon: Rising 9th grade inner city students,
exposed to EmpowerMath in a three week workshop, have been found twice as likely
to take and pass advanced math during their high school careers. |
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