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"Hoping to keep more of its students from dropping out, the Apollo Group, which operates the profit-making University of Phoenix, said Tuesday that it would pay $75 million to buy Carnegie Learning, which offers computer-based math instruction."

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"So perhaps it shouldn't have been a surprise that the company's first mobile application to use Alpha was similarly tailored for a refined audience and came with a correspondingly expensive price tag of $50. No doubt displeased with the response, Wolfram shortly after decided to "focus on ubiquity" and cut the price to $2. Now Wolfram is showing signs that indicate a deeper understanding of consumer sensibilities, announcing new iOS applications called Wolfram Course Assistants to help students with algebra, calculus, and music theory. They tap into Alpha's Mathematica abilities behind the scenes, but they're focused, packaged, and reasonably priced at $2 for algebra and music theory and $3 for calculus."

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"As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools. A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems."

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"The latest international tests meant to measure the academic aptitude of 15-year-olds--the Program for International Student Assessment, whose results were released on Dec. 7--show that American students continue to lag those in other countries in math and science. In math, American students ranked 31st among 65 countries and below the average of countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In science, American students ranked 23rd, on par with the OECD average. American 15-year-olds fared similarly on the 2006 PISA tests: 32nd in math and 23rd in science."

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"The W3C has updated its MathML standard for rendering mathematical notation on Web pages to better portray basic math symbols, as well as render mathematic symbols in more languages."

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"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is piloting the first full-curriculum algebra app for iPad, notes edReformer. More than 400 eighth-graders in San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside will learn on iPads loaded with the algebra app. They will not use a textbook."

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