WebAssign Partners with the Mathematical Association of America

RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WebAssign, a leading provider of online instructional tools for faculty and students, announced today it will provide online content for four MAA mathematics titles.

The mission of the MAA is to advance the mathematical sciences, especially at the collegiate level. WebAssign is a long-time supporter of the Association's mission and regularly exhibits at MathFest, MAA's annual conference. This union demonstrates WebAssign's continued commitment to provide instructors with textbooks and tools that help achieve their academic goals.

"By partnering with WebAssign, MAA is able to offer new tools to accompany some of our outstanding textbooks to enhance student learning," said Michael Pearson, Ph.D., executive director at MAA. "While providing students with immediate feedback, faculty can also leverage the data gathered by WebAssign to assess student progress and design instructional strategies that match students' needs."

In addition to online questions with instant student feedback, WebAssign will also offer tutorials and an eBook for the following MAA titles:

• Calculus for the Life Sciences by James L. Cornette and Ralph A. Ackerman
• Mathematical Interest Theory by Leslie Jane Federer Vaaler and James Daniel
• Functions, Data, and Models: An Applied Approach to College Algebra by Sheldon Gordon and Florence Gordon
• Ordinary Differential Equations: From Calculus to Dynamical Systems By V.W. Noonburg

"As a leader in the advanced mathematics arena, we are excited about this new partnership and the opportunity to broaden WebAssign's math offering," said Jennifer Ferralli, WebAssign mathematics product manager. "We are especially pleased to offer Mathematical Interest Theory, which represents a new course area for us."

Most titles will be available for the Spring 2016 semester.

About MAA
The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional society that focuses on making mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Formed in 1915, the Association has members that include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry who are interested in the mathematical sciences.

About WebAssign
WebAssign is a flexible and fully customizable online instructional system that puts powerful tools in the hands of teachers, enabling them to deploy assignments, instantly assess individual student performance, and realize their teaching goals.

More than eight million students have used WebAssign to submit over one billion answers to homework assignments, tests, and assessments.

Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, WebAssign is an independent, employee-owned benefit company dedicated to education technology. For more information, visit www.webassign.com.

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