Interactive Engagement

HMH Fuse™ is a completely new interactive experience. It offers video tutorials, audio and typed note-taking features, custom math tools that allow students to virtually see and manipulate equations and ongoing assessment with the results reported directly back to teachers!

Personalized Instruction

HMH Fuse delivers the foundation for self-paced and self-directed learning, enabling students to play an active role in their own progress. The content for HMH Fuse is based on award winning content from Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2. These programs have a proven history of helping math students develop math fluency!

Math for Digital Natives

With HMH Fuse innovative assets like video tutorials for every lesson, animated step-by-step solutions, scratchpad and visual graphing tools, your students will use technology for school work, like they use technology at home!

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• Common Core Math Standards

  HMH Fuse™ is focused on preparing students for the new era in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2.

  Built for the Common Core Math Standards, this program, its components and features help prepare students for new high-stakes assessments. HMH Fuse provides clear, comprehensive coverage of the new Common Core State Standards, with a special focus on the Standards for Mathematical Practice. More than just a full correlation to the new Common Core State Standards, the teacher resources include chapter prerequisites, pacing guide, and course planners with teaching support to ensure complete coverage of the Common Core State Standards. Are You Ready? and Ready to Go On? features provide a highly effective, integrated Tier 1, 2, and 3 Assessment and Intervention System. These features help students catch up and keep up with all the important concepts and skills. HMH Fuse is built on a solid foundation of research, proven to work in the classroom, and is consistent with No Child Left Behind requirements. This research is backed by the expertise of a world-class team of authors who have executed a program that makes students want to learn, helps them actually learn, and ensures their success on high-stakes tests.

  HMH Fuse is also available in a non-Common Core standard edition for Algebra 1.

  HMH Fuse™ is a trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Research: Evidence & Efficacy

  HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 Pilot Case Study—Riverside, CA (2012)

  Learn how the Amelia Earhart Middle School saw substantial gains in student achievement in classrooms piloting our new (at the time) HMH Fuse: Algebra 1 app, designed from the ground-up for iPad^®-based instruction.

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• Authors

  Meet the team that’s made Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 the most up-to-date and relevant math program focused specifically on meeting Common Core State Standards.

  

  Dr. Edward Burger - Program Author

  Edward Burger is the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, an educational and business consultant, and most recently served as Vice Provost for Strategic Educational Initiatives at Baylor University. He is the author of over 60 research articles, books, and video series (starring in over 3,000 on-line videos).

  Burger was awarded the 2000 Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Award for Distinguished Teaching and 2001 MAA Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo National Award for Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics. The MAA also named him their 2001-2003 Polya Lecturer. He was awarded the 2003 Residence Life Teaching Award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2004 he was awarded Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize and in 2006 he was a recipient of the Lester R. Ford Prize. In 2007, 2008, and 2011 he received awards for his video work. In 2007 Williams College awarded him the Nelson Bushnell Prize for Scholarship and Teaching.

  Burger is an associate editor of the American Mathematical Monthly and Math Horizons Magazine and serves as a Trustee of the Kenan Institute for the Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. In 2006, Reader's Digest listed Burger in their annual "100 Best of America" as America's Best Math Teacher. In 2010 he was named the winner of the 2010 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching—the largest and most prestigious prize in higher education teaching across all disciplines in the English speaking world. Also in 2010 he starred in a mathematics segment for NBC-TV on the Today Show and throughout the 2010 Winter Olympic coverage. That television appearance won him a 2010 Telly Award. The Huffington Post named him one of their 2010 Game Changers; "HuffPost's Game Changers salutes 100 innovators, visionaries, mavericks, and leaders who are reshaping their fields and changing the world." Most recently in 2012, Microsoft Worldwide Education selected him as one of their "Global Heroes in Education." In 2013 Burger will be inducted as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

  Dr. Burger is co-author of Holt McDougal Mathematics and Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2.

  Edward Burger earned his B.A. Summa Cum Laude with distinction in mathematics from Connecticut College and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Burger did post-doctoral work at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

  

  Dr. David J. Chard - Program Author

  David J. Chard, Ph.D. is the Leon Simmons Endowed Dean and founding dean of the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development and Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Chard has been the principal investigator on numerous federal research projects including topics such as response to intervention (RTI), reading, reading comprehension instruction, and early childhood mathematics. Since receiving his Ph.D. in special education in 1995 from the University of Oregon, he has been awarded state and federal research and training grants totaling over $10 million.

  Dr. Chard has published more than 90 articles, monographs, book chapters, and books on instructional interventions and modifications in mathematics, reading and expressive writing. He is a member of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, the American Mathematical Association, a Past President for the Division for Research at the Council for Exceptional Children, and a member of numerous national and regional boards supporting high quality educational opportunities for all children. He is the author of numerous instructional programs on reading, early literacy intervention, language arts, and mathematics spanning K–12 education and has been a classroom teacher in California, Michigan, and in the U. S. Peace Corps in Lesotho in southern Africa. In October of 2011 Dr. Chard was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences, a 15 member board that advises and consults with the director of the Institute of Education Science.

  Dr. Chard is co-author of Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, and Mathematics, as well as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys, a new K–6 reading program.

  

  Dr. Paul Kennedy - Program Author

  Paul Kennedy is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University. Hired as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, he effectively transformed the department's pre-calculus program into a state-of-the-art online instructional/assessment environment. The instructional approach in the new PACe (Paced Algebra to Calculus electronically) Center is based on mastery learning principles and offers both online and classroom instruction.

  Development continues with the construction of an innovative white board environment for online teaching, tutoring, and collaborative learning. Dr. Kennedy's research focus has been on mathematics achievement and on the use of technology. He is also a frequent speaker at major conferences, including the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Texas Instruments sponsored T3 International Conference.

  Dr. Kennedy received the 2007 Colorado State University CNS Award for Excellence, Teaching Innovation.

  Dr. Kennedy has been a national author for Holt McDougal Mathematics since 1990, having co-authored 14 textbooks. He is the co-author of Holt McDougal Mathematics; Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2; and Steck-Vaughn Transitions: Mathematics.

  Dr. Kennedy received his Ph.D. in Mathematics Education from the University of Texas at Austin

  

  Steve Leinwand - Program Author

  Steve Leinwand recently retired as a mathematics supervisor with the Connecticut Department of Education, where he served for more than twenty years. In this role he was responsible for a broad array of activities, including curriculum development, professional development, program evaluation, and student and teacher assessment, as they relate to the improvement of school mathematics. He specializes in mathematics research and assessment. He is the author of Sensible Mathematics: A Guide for School Leaders. Mr. Leinwand used his expertise in curriculum development to review the scope and sequence and content development of the high school program.

  Mr. Leinwand is a nationally recognized expert on math instruction and curriculum development, a former president of NCSM, and a former member of the NCTM Board of Directors.

  Mr. Leinwand is co-author of Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2.

  Dr. Tom Roby - Program Author

  Dr. Tom Roby has been an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs since 2005 where he also directed the Quantitative Learning Center (Q Center).

  Dr. Roby is co-author of Holt McDougal Mathematics; Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2; and HSP Math.

  Dr. Roby double-majored in Math and Ancient Greek at Swarthmore College and he received his Ph.D. in Algebraic Combinatorics at MIT.

  Dale Seymour - Program Author

  Dale Seymour began his career teaching Grades 7–12. After fourteen years of teaching, he founded Creative Publications. He later founded Dale Seymour Publications where he served as president. He was actively involved in the California State Mathematics Framework Addendum Committee, California State Model Curriculum Standards Committee, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Advisory Board for Mathematics Curriculum Standards. Currently retired, Mr. Seymour has authored and co-authored numerous books, designed games, posters, and other curriculum materials, and has been a requested speaker at many teacher conferences.

  In 1993, Mr. Seymour was awarded the Glen Gilbert National Leadership Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. The award recognized his leadership and significant contributions in the field of mathematics education.

  Mr. Seymour is a co-author of Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2.

  

  Dr. Bert Waits - Program Author

  Dr. Bert Waits is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at The Ohio State University and the co-founder of the T3 program (Teachers Teaching with Technology), which began as local training in the use of graphing calculators in 1986 and has grown into the world’s largest professional training program focused on handheld technology in the classroom. He is the co-founder and director of the Ohio Early College Mathematics Placement Testing (EMPT) Program of the Ohio Board of Regents. Dr. Waits has served as president of the Central Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics, is also a former board member of NCTM, and an author of the original NCTM Standards.

  Dr. Waits has authored numerous math textbooks and more than 70 publications in nationally-recognized professional journals. He has assisted in the design of the Texas Instruments family of graphing calculators and handheld computers since 1998. His current focus is mathematics teacher training and promoting appropriate use of handheld technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics.

  Dr. Waits developed the Technology Labs in the Holt Math programs. He is an author on the Holt McDougal Mathematics and Holt McDougal Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 programs.

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