• What is the additional cost per student, per semester?
  

  None. There is a one time charge for a semester's curriculum for each course (except for the free portions that are offered for download on this site). Use it with as many teachers and students through as many semesters and years as you like on a single campus. Uses on multiple campuses requires the purchase of multiple copies.

• Is the curriculum closely aligned with STARR/EOC?

  Yes

• Do you give out email address/phone number references of other schools using the curriculum?

  No, for the sake of our customers' privacy. (This has been a problem in the past.)

• Can the curriculum be used for independent study or for home school?

  Yes. Use the teacher version of the curriculum. The videos give detailed instruction on each lesson.

• Why are the answers to all the problems presented here on the Internet for the first semester of each course? My students would simply come here and copy.

  The feedback we get from teachers that use this curriculum is that many like the idea of allowing the students to see the keys. This approach does not work with lower level classes. Those students will often just copy and not really learn.
  
  However, it must be remembered that this curriculum is ADVANCED MATH. Advanced math students are typically curious to see how problems are worked and get instant positive feedback when they can see that they have worked a problem correctly.

  In any event, a quick quiz at the beginning of each class on the previous day's homework will generally cure the copying problem.

• In the videos I notice that you work some of the examples and problems more quickly than I do when presenting to my students. Won't this be a problem for students watching the lesson videos?

  No. Remember, they can stop, pause, and replay portions of the video as they take notes and slowly come to an understanding. We could have taken more time with the videos; however, they already produce very large files since they are high resolution and wide-screen. Access time (even across local networks) was a consideration in keeping the files as small as possible.

• I would like to put some parts of the curriculum on our school's web server so our students can access the material from home via the Internet... especially the videos.. Do we have permission to do this?

  Yes, but in a limited way. Since this is copyrighted material, it must not be accessible to the general public. It is permissible if access is given via a reasonably secure password. The same is true for access via Moodle & BlackBoard.

• I see no prices on the Curriculum page. How much does it cost? Do you offer discounts for the purchase of multiple courses?
  
  

  Generally, $249.95 per semester for a course. Go to the purchase page and check the items of interest. Scroll to the bottom to see the total cost including shipping.
  
  Sorry, we do not offer discounts. The curriculum is already bargain priced.
  

• Do you accept purchase orders?

  Yes, but only from schools within the US and Canada. See the top of the purchase page for where P.O.'s can be faxed, mailed, or emailed.

• Do you sell the tests and quizzes separately ?

  No

• Is there something I can show my curriculum director that would quickly explain what this curriculum is all about? We are not allowed to buy new curriculum without approval.

  Yes. We have a video in which Mr. Cook gives a whirl-wind tour of the curriculum. whirl-wind video tour

• Is the curriculum editable?

  What we supply in standard form in pdf file form is generally only editable in a minor form with Adobe Acrobat. However, for a small additional fee we can supply the original MS doc files from which the pdfs were created. They are editable.

• Is the curriculum compatible with CSOPE?

  Yes.

• Are security settings possible when the curriculum is posted to our local network?

  Yes. Upon purchase we provide detailed instructions on how to do this. When posting the curriculum to a local network or individual student computers, you may not want students to see the Teacher version and certainly not the Quizzes & Tests documents. The instructions point out the names of these pdf files so when coping files to a web server or individual computer, they can be omitted.

• How long are the lesson videos?

  They vary. The shortest is 4-5 min and the longest approximately 20 min. In a normal classroom setting with a teacher, the lesson is presented and examples worked in what averages to be about 12-15 minutes while the students take notes. That's about the average time of the lesson videos.. This leaves the remainder of the class for working on the assigment.

• Will the curriculum you deliver on a Flash Drive work on an Apple MAC?

  Yes. Try our demos here on this site. It will work just the same for you with what we provide with the Flash Drives.

• Do you ever update the curriculum? Any extra cost for updates?

  Yes; No
  
  When purchased, Internet links are given where updates are available for download. As flaws are found in the answer keys we provide, or clarifications are needed, we update quite often. Dates are provided so you can compare to your last update date to see if another is justified.
  
  No cost for updates.

• I notice a lot of use of graphing calculators is referred to in the curriculum that I see here online. I know that some of the procedures can be quite tedious. Any help for the students here?

  Yes. Look at the curriculum menu. For each lesson in which calculator activities are called for, far out to the right, there are two links. The first is to a document detailing (along with screen shots) the steps necessary to perform a specific calculator task. The second link is a video of the calculator as the task is performed.

• Why do you supply the curriculum on Flash Drives instead of DVD's?

  The total amount of file space (mostly the videos) needed for just one semester of one course would exceed two DVD's. The customer would be unable to run certain portions of the curriculum from just one DVD. Also, when copying the two DVD's to a computer or web server, an additional burden would be placed on the customer to copy them in the right sequence.
  
  So, the problems are solved by supplying the curriculum on a Flash Drive whose contents are easily transferred to a computer or web server... plus the customer now has a valuable 8gb or 16gb Flash Drive for his/her own use.

• Why is it necessary to create an account before downloading the free curriculum?

  We are constantly correcting and upgrading the curriculum. As a result of you having an account, we are able to notify you of imporatant enhancments, updates, corrections, etc.

 

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