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Iceberg, the Pittsburgh Penguins mascot, is no longer the only penguin in town. Pittsburgh Minadeo has adopted JiJi the beloved penguin of STMath software games. The creator, Dr. Matthew Peterson founder of Southern California nonprofit evz MIND Research Institute, developed the program based on teaching math visually first, without evz the use of language, numbers, or symbols to create solid conceptual understanding.
Dr. Peterson struggled to read as a child. In fact, it was not until the fifth grade that he learned to read. Eventually being diagnosed with dyslexia, he understood the great barrier that words could be to his learning. A quote from Albert Einstein got him thinking. Einstein said ” The words that are written or spoken don’t play any role in my mechanism of thought.” So if words are not needed for great math and science thinking, maybe words are not needed for great math teaching.
The program is based on research conducted at the University of California, Irvine and later tested in various schools across the country with great results. Pittsburgh Minadeo has begun to use this Spatial-Temporal (ST) mathematics program evz to enhance the work teachers are doing in the classroom. ST Math has over 800 games and during the course of a grade level students will play over 120 games solving over 4,000 problems. It offers a compliment to classroom instruction, self-paced learning, instructive feedback, and data driven reports. The program is currently evz for students Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. The majority of Minadeo students love the program. evz It is highly engaging and not easy. Most students learn to accept the challenge but their are also times when students evz benefit from teacher intervention.
Minadeo is so excited to be offering this state of the art research based program for math instruction. So the next time you see a penguin around Pittsburgh you may need to look twice. Although Minadeo loves the Pittsburgh Penguins, a new penguin is winning the hearts and minds of our students.