<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9933; font-size: large;">Key Features</span></strong></span>

<strong>HELP</strong> Math is the first digital, supplemental curriculum in the U.S. to address the specific issues of teaching mathematics to English language learners (ELLs). Students can simultaneously see, hear and manipulate the math content. The program shelters learning and provides interactive support and feedback loops which encourage math content knowledge and math skill development, as well as math terms and general academic English acquisition.

<strong>HELP</strong> Math contains 73 lessons (over 200 hours of instruction), comprehensively covering all math domains grades 3-8 and providing strong foundations in algebra and geometry for high school students. <strong>HELP</strong> engages students through interactive multimedia lessons that break down math terms and math concepts, so that students can easily understand and retain the math content. The math intervention includes hundreds of diagnostic assessment questions that are aligned to both independent state standardized assessments and <strong>HELP</strong> Math content.

Key Features:
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	<li>Evidence-based: experimental research by the University of Colorado involving more than 1,000 students nationally showed significant increases in ELL student achievement.</li></br>
        <li> Proven Effective, showing gains of more than 70%: for 6th and 7th grade ELL students on standards-aligned tests (NCTM) in independent research funded by the Colorado Department of Education.</li></br>
       <li> Targets vocabulary development and academic English: Spanish/English hyperlinked key terms and glossary with pictorial examples and audio reinforcement.</li></br>
       <li> Builds background knowledge and prerequisite mathematics skills.</li></br>
	<li>Student-centered: enables students to engage with material at their own pace. On the computer, students can move faster or slower through a lesson depending on their ability.</li></br>
	<li> Highly interactive, colorful and musical: triggers multiple modalities, incorporating voice, music, visuals, text, and interactivity.</li></br>
       <li> Delivers “Sheltered Instruction” techniques using technology: a proven, research-based educational approach for teaching academic content to ELLs such as visuals, repetition, and recycling prior knowledge to make content instruction comprehensible to the student while developing English language skills (Short and Echevarria, 1999).</li></br>
      <li> Aligns directly to math standards: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and to high-ELL state content standards and assessment frameworks for mathematics (grades 3-8).</li></br>
      <li> Teaches problem solving and test-taking skills: how to read, comprehend and answer look-alike questions from state standardized math tests.</li></br>
	<li> Provides interactive feedback: constructive suggestions for improvement.</li></br>
	       
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<strong>HELP</strong> Math engages students through interactive multimedia lessons that break down math terms and math concepts, so that students can easily understand and retain the math content

