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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.

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...

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’...

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