SchoolCity and Desmos Partner for Best of Class Math Instruction and Assessment Solution
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRWEB) January 13, 2018 -- SchoolCity® (http://www.schoolcity.com), a leader in personalized learning solutions, today announced its partnership with Desmos (http://www.desmos.com), the creator of the best-in-class HTML5 graphing calculator used by millions of students around the world to help them learn math and have fun doing it.
Through this partnership, SchoolCity integrates Desmos’s WCAG 2.0 AA-compliant graphing, scientific, and four function calculators within the SchoolCity SUITE. This allows teachers to easily provide math tools in their SchoolCity SUITE Assessments module that are simple for students to use, familiar, accessible, and aligned to high-stakes assessments in the 16 states that currently use Desmos as the on-screen calculators integrated into their summative assessments (http://www.desmos.com/testing).
“SchoolCity is very pleased to partner with Desmos and feature their calculator solutions,” says Vaseem Anjum, CEO and founder of SchoolCity. “We found the Desmos team shares our commitment to student achievement through personalized learning, accommodations and accessibility, and highest quality products.” This is technology best fit between two companies that have designed powerful yet easy to use functionality and it lays the foundation for many exciting innovations in advancing math education.
“SchoolCity is a leader in the K12 market whose culture and mission align with ours at Desmos. With each of our focus on providing easy to use, delightful, accessible tools for students and teachers, it only made sense to partner with SchoolCity. We are thrilled to be able to provide SchoolCity users intuitive math tools to aid in their learning throughout the school year, and are excited for the future of our partnership,” says Eli Luberoff, CEO and founder of Desmos.
The Desmos Calculators are currently integrated and operational for all SchoolCity SUITE users. For more information about Desmos and SchoolCity, please join our upcoming webinars (http://www.schoolcity.com/webinars-trainings) on January 18 or February 1.
Janie Wilson, SchoolCity Inc., http://www.schoolcity.com, +1 650-417-9999, [email protected]
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