American Students Score Poorly in Math
On the heels of a May 2007 study that ranked American fifteen year olds 24th of 29 nations in math literacy and problem solving skills, the U.S. Department of Education reported last fall that a mere 39% of 4th graders and 32% of 8th graders scored proficient or better in math. These statistics highlight a disturbing trend -- American students are missing out on basic math skills that are absolutely necessary for the 21st century's technological global market.
With this in mind, inventor Art Roberts created a Kids Memory Wizard, a learning system that combines writing with interactive, self-check activities to help students memorize basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts.
Kids Memory Wizard
Each Kids Memory Wizard boxed set contains an interactive learning wheel that students can use to practice and then self-check their basic facts. Students write with pencil on a slick erasable surface and then turn a wheel to check the accuracy of their answers. Facts are presented out of order so that students must really memorize rather than simply skip counting to find answers.
The product, which marketers claim promotes ten times better results than either flash cards or software, allows students to work at their own speed. In effect, students become their own teacher as they use the wheels to write and repeat basic facts. While all learners will benefit from the act of writing their answers, Kids Memory Wizard systems have a variety of elements that would also appeal to specific types of learning styles. While kinesthetic learners will benefit from the writing and wheel movement, primary colors and a simple but attractive design make the sets visually appealing for visual-spatial and auditory sequential learners as well.
As students master each fact series, they earn gold star stickers to be placed on accompanying achievement award cards. Additionally, boxed sets come with number lines, rulers and other learning tools with the same re-usable writing surface This system follows a WISER-KIDS (TM) system:
- Write-It
- Inter-active
- Self-check
- Erase
- Re-Use
Kids Success will provide replacement writing surfaces in the event that the wheels become worn with use.
Kids Success Company
Art Roberts, CEO of Kids Success Company of San Francisco and inventor of the Kids Memory Wizard systems created his company with the mission of providing well-organized products in order to present subjects in simple terms. In addition to providing a products that teach basic skills to American students, Roberts acts as a sort of American math ambassador, traveling the world delivering his products at no charge to third world nations.
Basic math skills are a vital foundation for any student who wishes to pursue higher mathematics, science or even art. At $4.95 for an individual math facts wheel or $7.95 for a boxed set, Kids Memory Wizard is an inexpensive and reusable math tool for classrooms and homes alike.
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