Audience Approved by PEP for students and teachers in high school remedial, general, and basic skills math programs. Junior high schools and middle schools may also use the simulation in their seventh and eighth grade programs. Description Sound Foundations replaces the traditional math curriculum for the target students but retains the traditional textbook for student practice. The program covers topics in the remedial math program by using a simulation format. Major topics include integers, rational numbers, graphing, measurement, geometry, probability, statistics, and consumer mathematics.
Managers receive quality points based on their decisions.
Students learn new math topics as they are needed in the simulation and work independently of each other. An annual exchange of ideas occurs every fall in a newsletter circulated to users of the program. Evidence of Effectiveness Remedial math students using the program show a greater increase in mathematics achievement and a positive increase in attitude towards success in mathematics, learn not to stereotype math as a male domain, and elect more quantitative courses in high school. Female students demonstrate a more positive attitude toward the usefulness of mathematics. Use of the program has increased the percentage of students passing state competency tests required for graduation, and has increased the percentage of students taking math electives.