Automated features and depth of content make Ascend the right choice when improved math achievement is your goal. Ascend helps build critical math skills faster while saving students, teachers, and administrators valuable time. Ascend combines continuous assessment, targeted instruction, prescriptive tutorials and powerful reporting tools—giving you a proven, direct route to improved math performance.

NHSTE brings you this product at discounted pricing. Please call Cyndy for a quote or demo:
801-0444 or ccurrier@mac.com

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Ascend Education is pleased to extend a new twist on learning this summer. Summer school adopters may receive The Ascend Math Solution for the summer months at 1/2 of an annual subscription rate. This means that your students will have all the instructional content they need regardless of grade levels and skill gaps for prices between $600 and $1,100* total for 50 students.

Plus if your school decides to extend these licenses through the full school year, you can receive the amount of licenses purchased for summer school for the full 2010-2011 school year by paying the additional 50% of the subscription price. Please submit extension Purchase Orders by September 30, 2010 to take advantage of the extension offer.

• Ascend meets Academic Standards
  
  • Ascend scope and sequence is set up by grade level according to NCTM standards
  
  
• Ascend engages students in learning
  
  • Meets students at their individual level – regardless of  their grade level to fill in skill gaps
  • Students receive instruction in a logical math sequence when they need it
  • Students have the ability to track their own success!
  
  
• Unique features of Ascend
  
  • Automatically creates individual study plans for students based on strengths and weaknesses
  • Ascend offers more than drill and practice – multiple modalities of learning
  • Video Instruction
  • Explorations to reinforce learning
  • Interactive Practice with immediate feedback and opportunities for reteaching
  • Printable Resources
  • Student Tracking of individual progress
  • Ascend offers both formative and summative reporting
  • Ascend offers a self-paced resource and in-class instructional support
  
  
• Ascend automatically differentiates instructional paths according to individual strengths and weaknesses as diagnosed on pre-assessments

The Ascend Math Solution Features:

• Benchmark Knowledge to Determine Skill Gaps

Ascend® diagnoses skill gaps based on state or national standards and automatically prescribes individual learning paths regardless of grade level.

• Differentiate Instruction to Boost Achievement

Using embedded, continual assessments and without demands of manipulating technology, Ascend guides students through individualized instructional paths. Ascend’s multi modalities of learning including award-winning video instruction means students can work independently in class, computer labs, before/after school programs, and at home, and always receive consistent, individualized instruction.

• Reinforce Complex Mathematics Concepts With Activities

Ascend prescribes ample interactive practice and activities for the skills and
concepts students need to master.



• Save Time Without Compromising Instructional Quality

With Ascend's diagnostics and differentiated instructional paths, teachers don't need to spend time developing extra lesson plans and instruction for students requiring additional math help outside the classroom. Further, Ascend's automated reporting saves instructors time by eliminating the need to grade or scan papers, or compile time-consuming reports. This helps math instructors focus instruction more effectively for students and strengthens communication among teachers, parents, and administrators.