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Basic Skills Pkgs. Debut at FETC

  • 02/01/96

SkillsBank Corp. plans to introduce two new products at the Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) that cover basic skills instruction for grades 3-8.

CornerStone Language Arts and CornerStone Mathematics present a full range of language arts and math fundamentals in a thorough, five-step approach. Both products are available for the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

The Language Arts title covers capitalization, punctuation, spelling & usage and grammar. The Math title covers number concepts, whole numbers, decimals, fractions & percents, and data & graphs.

Diagnostic tests pinpoint areas where students need more work, and the Teacher Management Program simplifies the assignment of work and generation of progress reports. Skills Bank Corp., Baltimore, MD, (800) 451-5726.

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