iPads in the classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says
After a yearlong pilot program, initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in California, it was found that students' math scores jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper texts.

iPads in classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says
After a yearlong pilot program in California initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the math scores of students using iPads jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks. (Credit: Apple) HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world's first iPad-driven algebra curriculum ...

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