Pedagogical Approach of Author Ron Larson

By its very nature, technology is an exciting tool that most students welcome the opportunity to use. The engaging, online format of LarsonMath.com: Intermediate can be used to reinforce, extend, and assess student learning. The program is designed to ensure that students master and apply math skills, understand that there is a variety of problem presentations, and comprehend the real-life uses for their developing math skills. This progression from skill building to problem solving and critical thinking parallels the progression of thinking in Bloom's Taxonomy. Students' thinking advances from knowledge to application to evaluation.

LarsonMath.com: Intermediate is designed to provide the tools necessary to support direct instruction for teaching both skill building and problem solving.

Author Ron Larson received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado and has been a professor of mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University since 1970.

He has been the lead author of over 40 texts from middle school through college. He is the lead author of over two dozen McDougel Littell and Houghton Mifflin textbooks from grade 6 through Calculus.

Ron Larson is one of the pioneers in the use of multimedia to enhance the learning of mathematics. He has authored over 40 software titles since 1990 including Larson's Elementary Math, Larson's Intermediate Math, Larson's Middle School Math, Larson's Prealgebra, Larson's Algebra 1, Larson's Algebra 1 with Review, and LarsonMath.com: Prealgebra.