Dan Finkel runs Math for Love with his wife, Katherine Cook. They have developed two games: Tiny Polka Dot: A math-enriched card deck for 3- to 8-year-olds. “It’s really flexible,” Finkel said. You ...

In Erin Bryan’s 5th grade math classroom, TGIF takes on a whole new meaning. Fridays don’t just herald the coming weekend. They’re also game days. “They all come in here on Fridays pumped,” said Bryan ...

This past spring, Dawne Coker found herself dressing up like her grandmother and baking cookies on camera, all for the sake of math. Coker, a K-5 instructional coach in Cumberland County schools in ...

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This post was updated to clarify benefits of the program to Oakland Unified students. A growing number of students in Oakland Unified are learning math by playing a computer game that asks students to ...

Since 2010, Motion Math has released nine math games which have been downloaded over four million times and earned a slew of awards. I wanted to try these highly acclaimed games for myself so I ...

Teachers can use these tools to promote discussions and help students move from concrete to abstract understanding of concepts.

This module can be used by students to hone their mental math skills using a variety of mathematical operations. The game goes through multiplication, addition, subtraction, algebra, and exponent ...