Voyager Expanded Learning and 3P Learning Host World Math Day Competition
02 March 2007 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Students From Around the Globe Compete Online as They Strive to
Answer More Than 10 Million Math Questions Correctly DALLAS, March
1 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Expanded Learning(R) and 3P Learning
announced today that they will host a celebration of numbers, with
support from Microsoft Corporation, to recognize World Math Day on
March 14, 2007. Children of all ages and ability levels from around
the globe will unite in their quest to set a world record in
answering math questions correctly on Voyager's VmathLive(TM)
website (http://www.vmathlive.com/) and 3P Learning's Live
Mathletics(R) Game Engine (http://www.mathletics.com.au/ and
http://www.mathletics.co.uk/). The event will begin on March 14
west of the International Dateline and continues through to the
last minute of March 14 east of the International Dateline.
Students will take part in real-time battles of speed and skill and
may participate either at home or at school. More than 65 countries
are currently registered for the competition and include Albania,
Angola, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cote
d'Ivoire, Canada, Canary Islands, China, Colombia , Costa Rica,
Cyprus, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana,
Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy,
Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico,
Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan,
Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Korea,
Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain,
Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand,
Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United
States, and Zimbabwe. Existing VmathLive and Mathletics schools
will have automatic entry into the event. Current Vmath customers
can register by visiting http://www.voyagerlearning.com/ and
logging into VPORT, Voyager's Professional Online Resource Tool.
Teachers can register non-Vmath students free of charge at
http://www.voyagerlearning.com/worldmathday. For countries outside
the U.S., visit http://www.worldmathsday.com/ or
http://www.worldmathday.com/ to register. Schools and teachers are
encouraged to register their students before March 5, 2007. Voyager
Expanded Learning Voyager Expanded Learning provides core,
intervention and supplemental reading programs, as well as math
intervention and ongoing professional development programs, for
school districts throughout the United States. Founded in 1994,
Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills
intervention programs, as well as large-scale reading programs, to
more than 900 school districts in cities such as Dallas, Phoenix,
New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically
improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, L.P. is
based in Dallas, Texas. For more information, please visit
http://www.voyagerlearning.com/ or call 1-888-399-1995. About 3P
Learning: Founded in 2003, 3P Learning develops e-learning
resources for students and teachers. Key to the success of 3P
Learning's resources is the idea that play plus practice equals
progress. The company's e-Learning resources are written by
teachers who hold this philosophy at their core, and are proven to
engage and motivate students to achieve excellent results. 3P
Learning develops curriculum-based resources for the Internet that
are currently used by over 1000 Australian schools and that have
been used by close to 1 million students. For teachers, 3P Learning
uses technology to provide up to the minute information on
students' progress and the ability to fully differentiate within a
class to target individual student needs. For more information
about 3P Learning, please visit http://www.3plearning.com.au/.
DATASOURCE: Voyager Expanded Learning CONTACT: Shannan Overbeck of
Voyager Expanded Learning, 1-888-399-1995 ext. 9476, ; Liz
Wheatley, Marketing Manager of 3P Learning, +61-2-8917-5645;
Jennifer Chelune, Investor Relations Manager of ProQuest Company,
+1-734-997-4910, Web site: http://www.voyagerlearning.com/
http://www.mathletics.com.au/ Company News On-Call:
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