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We believe that the PACT collaboration between
CMU and the Pittsburgh School District uniquely positions
the city and county to take the lead in mathematics education
and establish a standard for the rest of the nation.
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PACT Center Receives $2.7 Million in Funding
Building on the success of its cognitive tutor courses for high
school mathematics the Pittsburgh
Advanced Cognitive Tutor (PACT) Center has received $2.7
million in funding from Carnegie
Learning Inc for the three-year project "Cognitive
Tutors for Middle School Math".
The project investigators, Albert Corbett
(HCII), Ken Koedinger (HCII), and John
R. Anderson (Psychology) are developing, evaluating and piloting
three Cognitive Tutor courses for middle level mathematics. Carnegie
Learning was founded by Carnegie Mellon 18 months ago to disseminate
the Cognitive Tutor high school courses and to broaden the successful
application of educational technologies. The Cognitive Tutor Algebra
course, which started the PACT Center, received an "Exemplary
Curriculum" designation from the US Dept
of Education last year and Carnegie Learning has doubled
the PACT Center's prior dissemination of the course so that it is
now in more than 150 schools across country.
For more information about the PACT Center, see their web page
at:
http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ACT/awpt/algebra-home.html
http://act.psy.cmu.edu/ACT/awpt/contacts-PACT.html
Albert
T. Corbett
Ken
Koedinger
John
R. Anderson
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