Making Math Moments That Matter

How Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces Changed the Math Classroom

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

Chris Luzniak & Kerry Smith: Using Improv in Math Class to Listen as a Learner

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

Grace Kelemanik and Amy Lucenta - Making Math Discourse Visible

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

James O’Neal Jr: Reaching Hard-to-Reach Learners

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

Building Math Professional Development Teachers Want

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

Mona Iehl: Building Problem Solvers With the Curriculum You Have

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

Are You Setting The Wrong Math Improvement Goals?

K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instructional practices—without adding an

Sue Looney: Using Stories to Build Resilient Problem Solvers

Jon Orr and Sue Looney preview her Make Math Moments Virtual Summit session and share how stories, memorable characters, and a four-step story lens can help teachers buil

How to Build Teacher “Buy-In” for Math Improvement

Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman explore teacher buy-in and resistance in math PD, and how the Results Pyramid helps leaders create the experiences that shift beliefs, build tru

Dr. Nicki Newton: Rethinking Math Fact Fluency.

What does fact fluency actually mean in your school? If you asked five teachers, would you get five different answers?  K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coheren

Is Productive Struggle One Of Your Math Classroom Pillars? Should It Be?

What do you fundamentally believe about how students learn mathematics? More importantly, do the everyday experiences in your classroom actually reflect those beliefs? K

Graham Fletcher: Are We Making Math More Disjointed Than It Needs to Be?

Monday is make a ten. Tuesday is doubles. Wednesday is doubles plus one. Add a completely different context each day, and we may be making it harder for students to see h

From Classroom Observations to a Focused Math Improvement Plan

Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman unpack a three-day school visit and share how a K–12 team used a Math Coherence Compass, classroom observations, focused instructional moves, an

Zak Champagne: Creating Curious Kids in the Math Classroom

Jon Orr interviews Zak Champagne, author of Curious Kids in the Math Classroom, about practical ways to foster student curiosity through classroom community, authentic qu

Math Wars: Why Conceptual vs. Procedural Is the Wrong Math Debate

The math wars often focus on conceptual understanding versus traditional algorithms. Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman explore a deeper challenge: understanding the prerequisite

Peter Liljedahl: Can We Teach Students to Be Resilient?

We want students to be curious, persistent, and resilient problem solvers. But what if those aren't qualities students simply bring into our classrooms? What if we c

How to Spiral Your Math Curriculum: A Better Alternative to Cramming and Reteaching

Ever reach the end of the semester only to feel like you're reteaching everything from September? If students learned it once but can't retrieve it months later

Rewarding Student Thinking: An Interview with Dr. Pamela Seda

We say we want students to become critical thinkers, problem solvers, and mathematical reasoners. But do the systems in our classrooms and schools actually reward those t

How Strong Math Teams Turn Decisions Into Action

Your math team meets regularly. You strategize, make decisions, and talk about improving mathematics. But when everyone leaves the meeting, does the work actually move fo

Why Do Students Struggle With Math Word Problems and What To Do About It

We’ve all heard it: “My students can do the math—they just struggle with word problems.” They can perform the calculation when it’s presented directly, but put that same