Teaching Maths Concepts
The Symphony Maths software program helps students develop a solid foundation in number concepts and maths operations.
Symphony Maths systematically helps students (children & adults alike) improve maths concepts, fluency, procedures and applications.
Symphony Approach
Symphony Maths is a developmental intervention. The program seeks to find where a student’s maths skill development is along several conceptual pathways and join him or her at that point. This enables the program to provide problem-solving activities that meet the student at the appropriate level of skill or slightly beyond. As the student progresses the program provides increasingly complex challenges along each developmental pathway.
Individualized
Symphony Maths tracks student progress at a fine level in order to adapt to the specific needs of each student. The program adapts to each student’s level of conceptual understanding, learning style, contextual proficiency, and content mastery i.e. personalised learning. One student may be a visual learner who is strong with concepts but weak with number relationships. Another student may be more of a verbal learner who is strong with procedures but weak on applications. Symphony Maths identifies these needs and provides the appropriate individualized intervention.
Comprehensive & Systematic
Symphony Maths systematically addresses proficiency with concepts, procedures, fluency and applications. Each of these skills are interrelated and addressed by the program in a systematic manner. This approach avoids the common dichotomy of teaching concepts versus teaching procedures. Students need more than a one track emphasis as they bring a variety of learning profiles to the endeavour of becoming mathematically proficient.
Engaging
Symphony Maths is designed to be intrinsically motivating. The program seeks to engage and motivate students by emphasizing the interesting patterns and conceptual links of mathematics. Students are challenged to make links and identify patterns in order to discover the inherent order and systematicity of mathematics. We believe that if students’ attention is drawn towards discovering the fundamental nature of maths and its applications that this will sustain their interest more profoundly than cartoon characters or computer animations.
For further information, please see the Symphony Learning site (this link will take you away from the Lexia UK site).