Results Schools Are Having With

Mastery Learning Systems'

Count, Notice, & Remember

Measurable Gains in Testing Accuracy

A school in ABC School District (Los Angeles area) identified a number of sixth-graders who tested below 25% accuracy on basic multiplication/division, despite their teachers' best efforts. They worked with CNR two or three hours a week for sixteen weeks, and a teacher measured the results as a focus for her master's thesis. At the conclusion of the study, every child achieved 93% or above accuracy.

Middle-schoolers in Rohnert Park, California raised their math diagnostic scores from 58% to 84% after eight hours of after-school remediation using our method.

"Math gains were incredible! All kids in summer school were "far below basic" in math -- less than the 19th percentile. 100% of our math class students left summer school knowing how to multiply and divide in the 90th percentile and above. Awesome. What a gift! I absolutely love your mateirals!" L. H., Principal Atwater, CA

Effective Teaching Strategy

As coordinator of intervention for our district, I am always on the lookout for effective teaching strategies and programs for the struggling learners. Count, Notice, and Remember Series by Mastery Learning Systems has proven to be just such a program. Through minimal-language, engaging, fast-paced lessons, students are guided through series of sequential lessons that build concepts through self-discovery and repeated practice. The students felt successful immediately. Even the students who already knew the material enjoyed participating and were challenged to improve.

The materials provided were very complete, affordable, and easy to imbed into our existing math program. Mr. Simpson's personal support to help our district get started with the program was very "hands on," generous, and responsive to our personal needs. The workshops provided by Mr. Simpson were extremely beneficial in training teachers to use the materials, and fun. J.B., Curriculum Specialist Alameda, CA

Connects Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Knowledge

Several of us had the opportunity to observe Jeff Simpson demonstrate his mathematics instructional delivery and materials in a total of nine classrooms, grades 1 though 5 ....

During our debriefs there was the unanimous opinion that what we saw was valuable in that it did make the crucial and oft-voiced needed connection between conceptual understanding and procedural knowledge. Although his lessons/materials are meant to only supplement, not supplant, a school's regular mathematics program, the fact that they are designed to help students to connect the conceptual to the procedural, and to better understand and remember their "basic math facts," make them well worth considering for purchase. This was evidently the case, as we we saw "the light go on" in child after child.

Another consideration is that the Simpson instructional approach is meant to reach and help all students in the classroom and to leave no student behind. Although this may be too much to hope for, Mr. Simpson did appear to connect with all of the children, certainly more with some than with others, but very few needed extra individual help.

One stand-out example of a child "getting it" occurred in a second-grade classroom. In a lesson of addition and subtraction using a number line and two-digit numbers, a girl who at first seemed lost, ended that 50-minute sessions looking at addition and subtraction problems (20, + and - 10 ) written in standard algorithm form while rapidly reading off the answers, both quickly and correctly.

As can be seen on Mr. Simpson's order forms, training and materials are very inexpensive, and the training can be given in a variety of forms. B.A., Mathematics Resource Teacher Los Angeles, CA

What Teachers Say

"Students learn when I use this program ... Thanks for ideas that work!" "Very strategic materials ... I love these ideas ... Great for those basic concepts." "... great back-up supplement for our students to get hooked on math; very cost-effective; it works! Supplements framework/math thinking better than anything I've seen." "Before, there were some students I could never reach. Now I know what to do." "Wonderful! I wish I had something like this when I learned fractions as a kid. I will use it to save kids the frustration I experienced." "I can really use this 'imagery' idea with my LD/EMH students." "This program has a wonderful hands-on approach. It is a simple introduction that includes the 'why' as well as the actual process. It's realistic in that it addresses multiple learning styles and intelligences." "It's a good way to introduce operations, and at the same time, students get a deeper understanding of numeration." "If the student uses the various activities from each chapter, the memorization will be automatic and effortless!" "I especially liked the demonstration with the students prior to the workshop. It helped me to realize the importance of the procedures pointed out during the workshop." "... the results were impressive." "In all my experience with kids from grade preschool through college, from the U.S. and other cultures, from gifted and special education, these are the most exciting and satisfying math materials I've seen, for both teachers and students. Using them, kids can get the pictures inside their heads that people good at math develop."

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