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Making Math Add Up

A series on the difficulties students have learning math, and what methods some schools and teachers are using with success.

New math program a hit with elementary students, teachers

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

More rigor, an engaging format and digital resources impress users so far. The new K-5 curriculum cost the district $114.000...

100 days smarter

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

West Godwin Elementary makes it a day to remember...

Foundation funds math curriculum, mental health coordinator

Caledonia Alexis Stark

The Caledonia Education Foundation recently awarded the district a $75,000 grant to pay for a new math curriculum and to free up dollars to add a new position to serve students’ mental, social and emotional health needs...

Rocketing through Robotics

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

Creating 3D-printed rockets is just one hands-on activity this fall in a new Introduction to Robotics course at Kelloggsville High School...

Working from concrete to abstract in Algebra 2

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

Popsicle-stick Ferris wheels are just one more way to teach important mathematics concepts at Kelloggsville’s 54th Street Academy...

A formula for teaching algebra

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Forget cramming study guide notes before a test...

Math intervention aims to reach every student

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Different students may be in groups weekly, depending on what standards they have met...

Upping the equity quotient in math

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Leading Educators involves about 50 educators in Godwin Heights, Wyoming, Godfrey-Lee, Kentwood and Grand Rapids Public Schools who have signed on for a two-year commitment...

Figure this: numbers are like toys in Math Circle

Making Math Add Up Erin Albanese

‘It’s math for the sake of math – just for fun. In class you are taught math. Here you experience math’...

Turning the (multiplication) tables

Godwin Heights James Harger

The Michigan Mathematics Educators (MichME) initiative is changing the way math is taught in West Michigan schools, one teacher and classroom at a time. After four years, the program has rewired the way math is taught by more than 250 educators and administrators...