1) Improve math scores2) Make some money for your school3) Have fun, all rolled into one simple plan

Let me show you how to:

Why are only 26% of high school graduates proficient in 12th grade math today?

Everyone knows math skills build on each other so a systemic problem like this must be seriously addressed at the foundation.

Did you know studies report the best predictor for a 12th grade student’s math success is how well that student did in the 3rd

grade?

Educators are properly focused on teaching math fact fluency in the 3rd grade today, just as they have for decades. Today’s educators are better qualified, better paid, and better trained with improved techniques, high tech equipment, etc. So what has substantively changed in today’s classrooms that is causing this decline in math?

40 years ago, I, and many others like me, had sticks, rocks, and dirt to play with and lived in a house with one black and white tube TV with 3 channels and no remote. If we were lucky, we had an hour of cartoons on Saturday morning before our parents woke up. Our classrooms were one of our most engaging environments!

Today, students have toys we could not have imagined 40 years ago, and they live in a big screen, Hi-Def, 3D, surround sound, remote controlled, smart phone, on-demand, instant gratification, fast food, supra-normal-stimuli video gaming world. Classrooms are likely not their most engaging environments! The traditional ways math facts were taught are no longer effectively engaging most of today’s students.

Relative Engagement Levels

A Helpful Engagement AnalogyBLACKSMITHS = EDUCATORSMETALS = STUDENTS’ BRAINS

TEMPERATURE OF THE FIRE = ENGAGEMENT LEVEL

Metals are easily reshaped only when the fire is hot enough. Otherwise, the metals retain their shape and the blacksmiths only have a sore arm to show for all their efforts.

Kid’s brains today are complex, high tech alloys requiring a fusion-like reactor to generate the necessary heat to make the gray matter “flow.”

When I was a kid, all it took was the warm glow of a campfire to keep us engaged.

Automaticity is when the math facts become permanently “stored” in long term memory. Here, the facts can be instantly recalled, as opposed to repeatedly “solving” the same problems in the valuable and limited working memory* part of the brain.

*Advanced math requires the working memory be “available” for processing higher concepts while integrating smoothly with the math facts that should be stored in long term memory.

The “simple” decisions are now allowed to take place in the background …... so the “driver” can focus on other more

important tasks.

Lower relative engagement levels in the classrooms have resulted in a decline in AUTOMATICITY.

What is Automaticity and what role does it play in furthering student’s math careers?

Almost every teacher, even college professors, tell us,”My students do not know their math facts.”

How can one teacher possibly engage dozens of today’s students to automate something as mundane as learning math facts?

Let me tell you about my good friend, Kathy Spruiell. She is one of the best elementary math coaches, teachers and trainers in the country,

diligently working on this very problem.

Is this “Mission Impossible”? No!

Kathy Spruiell uses the “Albert’s Insomnia” not so secret formula to help solve this big problem.

• Is available in many: card games, home school kits, mobile apps, and an ERP (Electronic Resource Program with built -in layers of assessment for students and teachers).

• Is a great value and Very Affordable and will even serve as a great fund raising tool and community involvement/outreach program to help ease strained budgets.

(Higher Test Scores) + (Games kids love to Play) = “Albert’s Insomnia”

***The Results are in***Last year, Kathy used Albert’s Insomnia to increase the average number of students exceeding the state standard in her school’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades by 33% playing for 15 minutes/day 3-4x/week!

*Data from GADOE Press release.

“Albert’s Insomnia”• Plays like a game students WANT to play.• Automatically tiers instruction; meaning,

the game play starts off easy to engage even the most math reluctant students, not just the ones that are already good at it, while simultaneously reinforcing mental math fact fluency.

Spelling Bees!

Did You Know?• On their 100th anniversary, in 1925, the “Scripps National

Spelling Bees” were established and are still going strong today.

• Since the advent of “Spell Check technology,” participation has doubled in these competitions.

• These competitions are very popular with schools, students, parents , and sponsors.

• The finals are in the 24/7 news cycle every year. Even though Spelling Bees: do not have a significant impact on standardized test scores do not offer differentiation for all student ability

News Flash:We just got a report in stating: “23% increase in

computational proficiency using Albert’s Insomnia in just two weeks!”

Today, the news is full of stories about educators continuing to struggle with math as

seen in the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s article “Educators: Address kid’s math struggle”

by Rose French on the front page June 28, 2014.

How can you be the Hero?

3) PTA can even ask local businesses to join the fun and “sponsor” the contest or provide prizes creating more interest and funds for the school.

Create an “Albert’s Insomnia Challenge” at your school modeled after spelling bees.

This is as simple as 1 2 3 !

1) Improve math skills and test scores for students by kids playing Albert’s Insomnia.2) Very reasonable upfront cost with OPEN ENDED FUNDING! PTA can recoup investment with a very low entry fee.

Many schools already have a math night. Plan the school finals to coordinate with math night so sponsors can participate and be part of the fun and make math night at your school a BIG DEAL!

Try my game for free today! If you can make it up to level 7 of the “Free Challenges” ladder, the value of “Albert’s Insomnia” becomes intuitively obvious, even to the casual observer!

You can register yourself and play the “Free Challenge” ladder at; http://game-albertinsomnia.rhcloud.com/

See how well YOU can do!

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For a demonstration or more product information please contact:

Richard John Buchner III3732 Galdway Dr.Snellville, GA 30039Ph. 678-787-4524Email rjb3games@gmail.comwww.albertsinsomnia.com

“Albert is a proven winner.He will be a winner for you too!”

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