Fowey Mathematics Faculty

Independent Learning System

SuccessMaker is an unparalleled learning system for students of all abilities, enabling teachers to provide differentiated and individualised tuition across the classroom. It develops basic literacy and numeracy skills by allowing students to progress at their own pace.

The computer system is supplied by by RM Learning Systems of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and thenetwork is an industrial standard PC network based upon Novell networking systems. The SuccessMaker software has been developed by Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC) of Sunnyvale, California. CCC has been developing and enhancing SuccessMaker in the classroom for 25 years, giving it unparalled expertise in computer assisted instruction (CAI).

At the heart of SuccessMaker is the Integrated Management System: it automatically keeps track of each student's progress and, as they take sessions in a course, their performance data is recorded in a 'history' file which is used to provide further individual instruction.

The teacher can choose from a selection of reports:

Course Reports provide detailed data on individual student performance in each course. Grouping Reports for most courses show strands or areas in which students are performing below their average in a course and list specific skills with which students are experiencing difficulties

Individualised Prescriptive Strategy Reports are planning tools that estimate the time needed for students to reach achievement goals.

Custom Reports provide over 50 special-purpose reports along with facilities for creating, testing, organising and printing your own reports to match the requiremnts of the system managers, teachers, parents and students.

Mathematics courses which are available on SuccessMaker:

Maths Concepts and Skills.

This is a very large course of over 300 hours with 30,000 activities! It includes the study of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and equations. Its application strands cover number concepts, geometry, measurement, problem-solving strategies, science applications and probability and statistics.

Age Range: 5 to Adult

Maths Investigations.

This course provides students with 24 full investigations with opportunities to apply maths concepts. The built-in maths processor toolset includes a spreadsheet and table generator, probability tools and a geometric construction set.

Age Range: 10 to Adult

Algebra Topics.

This interactive course offers over 1,500 exercises covering nearly 600 instructional objectives. On-line resources include a graphing environment, an equation solver and an expression calculator. Age Range: 14 to Adult

English courses available on SuccessMaker include:

Reading Readiness.

This course comprises 35 hours of exercises in strands that develop 36 essential reading skills. These include letter identification, visual discrimination, auditory discrimination, vocabulary building and comprehension skills.

Reading Age: Pre-reading

Initial Reading.

Two years of daily 10-minute sessions follow on from the Reading Readiness course. Strands include word, sentence and passage comprehension.

Reading Age: 6 to 8

Reader's Workshop

With more than 12,000 activities, this course supplements the classroom reading programme by promoting reading and critical thinking skills in a multimedia environment.

Reading Age: 8 to 13

If you require any further information then please contact the school or RM Learning Systems.
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