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Making Math Add Up

What does a math lesson look like in today’s K-12 classrooms? This series explores how schools are helping students overcome obstacles and appreciate the value of math by making the topic accessible and relevant.

Pi Day slices fun with math

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell

What is irrational, contains more than 200 trillion digits, and shares a special day with Steph Curry’s birthday? A middle school math teacher would be happy to teach you

Old McDonald had a math lesson

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Old McDonald’s farm animals helped kindergartners learn addition, reading comprehension and how food comes from farms to markets.

New math curriculum spurs creative thinking

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Math in Kentwood Public Schools has students learning there’s not just one way to get the right answer.

Middle-schoolers learn to handle money at school events

Comstock Park Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Running the ticket gate at the middle school gave social worker Mandy Bernal-Hill an idea how to get students involved.

Games, quests help make math enjoyable

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Alpine Elementary students are collaborating to learn math while having fun, thanks to challenging games and quests.

Elementary math workshop ‘action packed’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

A new approach to math instruction this year at West Elementary School breaks lessons into smaller, bite-size pieces.

Marshmallows & math make for a sweet multiplication lesson

Comstock Park Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Pine Island third-graders add a new tool to help them solve multiplication problems.

An elective so fun, they don’t know it’s math

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell

In this middle-school elective class, part of the fun in learning is discovering the math as they play the game.

From concrete to abstract, manipulatives make math meaningful

Rockford Riley Kelley

A recent grant funded the purchase of new tools to help math learners in Rockford.

New math class uses real-world applications

Northview Morgan Jarema

A new math class is showing Northview Next Career Center students how the subject is used in real-world applications. It’s making a difference, in engagement and in their grades.

In this classroom, they’re thinking on their feet

Comstock Park Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Comstock Park redevelops its math curriculum so it is more relevant and engaging to students.

Students use math to tackle North Pole ‘peppermite’ infestation

Lowell Alexis Stark

Lowell High School AP calculus students have a very merry calc-mus creating functions and filming accompanying videos.

Learning division is easier with cupcakes

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

Math for Life, a new class at Mill Creek Middle School, teaches the core subject through kitchen skills...

Half-day math day? Yes!

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Student-led learning came in the form of math games for Crestwood Middle School students...

Making mathematicians

Sparta Jane Lally

The district’s Early Childhood Center learning lab incorporates math across the curriculum...

Love and positivity, multiplied

Lowell Erin Albanese

Two Valentines per algebra student grew to 1,400 schoolwide, and created an unforgettable math lesson...

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