Here are some of the many ways your school or school district will benefit from using RM Math Framework Edition:

Align Teaching and Learning to State Learning Standards

RM Math Framework Edition has been designed to focus teaching and learning directly to State standards. All of the curriculum resources are tagged to individual State standards, and the planning tools encourage teachers to teach, and to develop curricula and lesson plans, around the standards.

• State standards implemented within a powerful teaching and planning tool
• Content aligned to State standards
• Search tools that enable you to located resources by standards
• Add your own resources and tag them to State standards
• Test tool which enables you to easily measure student attainment to standards
• Electronic gradebooks monitor student performance by standards

Transform Teaching Productivity

RM Math Framework Edition puts all of the resources that teachers need directly at their fingertips and enables teachers to concentrate much more time on students and the teaching and learning process rather than on time-consuming administrative tasks.

• A comprehensive set of easy-to-use math tools (e.g. graph, number line and fractions tools)
• Dynamic easily-accessible standards-aligned content that supports all learning standards
• Planning tools that simplify curriculum development and student tracking

Motivate and Engage Students

RM Math Framework Edition can transform math teaching and learning enabling teachers to deliver fast-paced, highly visual, highly interactive math lessons that can stimulate and engage students and address all learning styles.

• Dynamic, highly visual math content
• Faster-paced lessons with a greater variety of resources
• Use of interactive technologies enables students to kinesthetically participate and “touch and feel” the math
• Compelling math games that encourage a friendly level of student competition
• Students report that RM Math Framework Edition makes math lessons “fun” and “exciting”

Promote Best Practice

RM Math Framework Edition has been designed to promote collaboration and sharing of best practice, both within the school and across the district.

• Easily share exemplar resources, courses and lessons
• Tests and other materials can be re-used and re-purposed for differentiation
• Planning tools facilitate the development of your own differentiated exemplar curricula
• Online tools extend teacher collaboration beyond the school or district

Integrate IT Within the Curriculum

RM Math Framework Edition is highly sophisticated, but very friendly technology which augmented by professional development training and comprehensive teacher notes for each activity can help you to effectively integrate IT within your curriculum, even when your IT infrastructure is limited or where your staff have little IT experience. The benefits of effective use of IT can be significant:

• Clear productivity gains
• Courses and lessons that are differentiated and more engaging for your students
• Recruitment and retention of staff
• Very tangible return on investment for the school or district

Improve Student Performance and Test Scores

RM Math Framework Edition works. Evidence from an extensive pilot study of RM Math Framework Edition within the UK, where the product has been in use since about 2003, showed the following:

• Significant increases in attainment gains for students.
• Noted improvements in student motivation, as well as other improvements such as attendance and general behavior.
• Teachers also noted how much they enjoyed teaching with RM Math Framework Edition
• A number of prestigious awards, including the renowned 2005 BETT award.