Two Long Beach schools teaching algebra with iPads
By Kevin Butler/Long Beach Press-Telegram
Need to learn algebra? There's an app for that, as a group of students at Washington Middle and Hudson K-8 schools found out Wednesday. Collectively at both schools, about 150 eighth-graders in four classes were provided with iPads loaded with a digital interactive Algebra I textbook to use this school year. The iPads and software were distributed as part of a one-year pilot program run by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the educational publishing firm that produced the digital interactive textbook. (more…)