About

Greetings! My name is Diane Lauer, and I have been a Thompson R2-J educator since 1996. Currently, I’m the Director of Curriculum and Instruction in the Thompson School District. I am a doctoral student at the University of Northern Colorado in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. I was born and raised in Illinois, moved out West in ’91 to teach in the Jemez Pueblo of New Mexico. I am very proud to live, work and serve in the Loveland/Berthoud community!

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  1. An Bui says:

    Hi Diane,

    I read recently about your district’s iDevice program and thought you’d want to know about the Motion Math suite of number sense games – the best math apps for iPad and iPod touch.

    For back-to-school, we’ve just made our games (all aligned with Common Core Standards) available through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program, for 50% discounts:
    • Motion Math: Hungry Fish Pro, a fun game for mastering mental addition and subtraction.
    • Motion Math: Wings Pro, a flying adventure with six representations of multiplication.
    • Motion Math: Zoom Pro, the world’s most interactive number line.
    • Motion Math HD, the estimation game with five forms of fractions. A rigorous efficacy study – the first done on an iPad educational app – found the game improved test scores 15% and attitudes towards fractions by 10%.

    Motion Math has won numerous awards and praise from educators: Margery Mayer, the President of Scholastic Education, has called Motion Math “the gold standard for mobile learning games,” and Joan Young, a 4th grade teacher at Trinity School in Menlo Park reported that “Kids request Motion Math’s apps more than any other math apps – they really love the interactive playful experiences.” Motion Math apps are essential for any elementary school and middle school iPad or iPod touch.

    Please let us know if you’d like a free promo code to try these games or have any questions. I’m curious – how do you pick apps?

    Best,

    An
    m: 210.387.4876

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