Archive for March, 2008

Happy Easter!

written by
ethan
at March 25, 2008

One of our reps sent us these pictures of their decorated easter eggs, enjoy!  

 

   

Nancy wrote:  

We have a tradition in our house, we color eggs on Resurrection Sunday. This year, because we don’t need as many eggs as we have in the past, we colored some for my assistant here in the office. This is part of what we gave her. We finished through Algebra 2 but the Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 didn’t turn out very well (hard to dye eggs brown).

  

Happy Easter!

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Resale Value of Math-U-See

written by
ethan
at March 19, 2008

The Thinking mother wrote a great blog post about the resale value of Math-U-See, here is what she said,

I can’t believe the prices that these are selling for, on EBay.

The average selling price for a USED (but complete) “starter set” is $28.25. A brand new set bought over the internet direct from MUS is $30.00. The crazier thing is that one auction was for full price and two auctions of USED sets exceeded the price of new sets. I don’t understand this!

Meanwhile complete sets of used “completer sets” averaged $29.67, while full price new is $35.

Prices for incomplete sets were only slightly lower. I am amazed that people are paying such high prices for used items for which they also must pay shipping. It is not as if the sellers were offering free shipping or some other perk! Why are people not buying directly from Math-U-See?

Read the full post here.

I’ve seen this myself on ebay and other places, I once saw a classic Intermediate teachers set going for over a hundred dollars! :-)

Well there you have it folks invest in Math-U-See for your kids college fund :-)

just kidding, it is a good investment though for higher grades in college :-)

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Happy Pi Day!

written by
ethan
at March 14, 2008

Today is March 14th 2008 which can be written 3.14 or as math people like to say, “pi“

 

There are celebrations around the world as math geeks everywhere celebrate the day of “pi” the most common way to celebrate is with a pi party where everyone brings and eats pie.

 

Just thought you should know :-)

 

And have a great pi day

  

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 

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Demo available Online

written by
ethan
at March 12, 2008

We have made the Demo DVD available for viewing online!    

 

Let your friends know that they can now view the Demo online without waiting for one in the mail. Instant gratification :-) Just email them this link http://mathusee.com/demo.html Or embed it in your blog   

 

Also look forward to more video to come from Math-U-See TV   

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Special Education and Math-U-See

written by
ethan
at March 10, 2008

Math·U·See is being used with special-ed students, and we are seeing great results. For example, twelve public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico used Math·U·See in their special-ed departments during the 2006-2007 school year. Here is the data from the first year: 27% was the average score prior to using Math·U·See, and 63% was the average score after using Math·U·See for one year… a 133% increase!

   

Click here to visit the Special-Ed page  

And click here to visit the new special-Ed section of the forum. 

I was just in Albuquerque and got to meet a few of the wonderful teachers using Math-U-See. Here is a slideshow with some pictures I took while there.

 

 

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Newsletter Archive

written by
ethan
at March 4, 2008

Today the 4th Math-U-See newsletter is sent out into the world. And since we are now up to #4 we have created an archive sectionon the Math-U-See website.

The USA Congressional Library -photo source

So if you want to catch up on previous newsletters click here.

And if you would like to sign up just go to the main page and sign up.

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