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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.

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...

Toy for the pool & nifty math tool

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
A third-grade teacher’s unique use of YouTube and pool noodles is helping his East Elementary students conquer multiplication...

Becoming ‘doers of math’

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Wyoming High School’s Clare Bunton is one of 29 first- and second-year teachers selected for a five-year fellowship on math instruction...

‘Math is all around us’

Making Math Add Up Beth Heinen Bell
Math coaches work with teachers to help students discover the joy of solving math problems...

Graphing equations: there is an art to it

Northview Morgan Jarema
Northview High algebra students show off their creative data-plotting, slope-including and equation-evaluating skills...

Math teachers launch sites, foundation to offer lessons, grants and scholarships

Kentwood Erin Albanese
Free lessons, grants and scholarships aim to improve math outcomes...

A Pi Day lesson they could sink their teeth into

East Grand Rapids Phil de Haan
Students in Laura Woolford’s sixth-grade class at East Grand Rapids Middle School got to measure, then eat in celebration...

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...
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