ExploreLearning is a Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by but separate from Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.The official population estimate for...

-based company which operates a large library of interactive online simulations for mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 and science

Science

Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

 education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 in grades 3–12. These simulations are called Gizmos. The company's website describes their library of over 450 Gizmos as the world's largest collection of such materials.

Gizmos have been the subject of numerous scholarly studies of educational technology

Educational technology

Educational technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources." The term educational technology is often associated with, and encompasses, instructional theory and...

 and have been recognized with many educational awards.

ExploreLearning is a division of Cambium Learning Technologies

Cambium Learning Technologies

Cambium Learning Group is an American company which creates computer software and hardware products serving students ranging from pre-kindergarten to adult; and enabling educators who help them learn....

, which is a business unit of Cambium Learning Group .

External links

• ExploreLearning website
• Cambium Learning Group - About page
• ExploreLearning, Inc. snapshot on Bloomberg Businessweek