Citizen Math lessons help teachers engage students in conversations about the world using math. Who should complete the Citizen Math Launch Course? This self-paced online course is designed for teach...

It’s not a perfect bracket, but it’s close enough.

As an envoy, I thought that it would be fun to give you an authentic look into my planning of a Citizen Math lesson. The first Citizen...

During my recent trip to Vermont, I got to stop in Keith Marshall's seventh grade classroom while he was teaching the Citizen Math lesson 🍕 Pizza Pi.  It was a blast watching his students debate th...

Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.

We took our 'Maths Tales' to the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Read all about the creative maths inspired poems written by students at the Teen Takeover Day.

In the real-world 🌎  lesson Downside Up by Citizen Math, students use interpret graphs describing how good or bad (+/-) each day of a week felt, and then describe the magnitude (or absolute value) ...

So much of mathematics is focused on the end point: the answer, the solution, the proof. We attach so much emphasis on the destination — the more efficient the better. We place such high value on t…

In the real-world 🌎  lesson Downside Up by Citizen Math, students use interpret graphs describing how good or bad (+/-) each day of a week felt, and then describe the magnitude (or absolute value) ...

Why discourse? Discourse is a vital element of teaching real-world contexts in a math classroom. But how can we develop a classroom in which students are comfortable, confident, and curious about e...

Why discourse? Discourse is a vital element of teaching real-world contexts in a math classroom. But how can we develop a classroom in which students are comfortable, confident, and curious about e...

Have you ever tried to lead a discussion in your classroom but you aren't sure where to start? Join me Wednesday next week (March 12) for a chat about discourse in the math classroom! We'll chat ab...

Engaging, informative Pi Day activities designed for middle school math, ELA, science, and social studies.

In the real-world 🌎  lesson My Fellow Americans by Citizen Math, students evaluate expressions with variables to compare the reading levels of famous speeches in American history and debate the vir...

Senators voted 31-0 for Senate Bill 26, sending to the Texas House legislation to give across-the-board raises to educators in Texas.

Should Major League Baseball stadiums be standardized? Students use a quadratic function to model the trajectory of the average professional home run and debate whether Major League Baseball stadiums ...

Should the U.S. get rid of the penny? Students operate with decimals to calculate the total costs to produce different U.S. coins. Students debate eliminating the penny and then consider a world with ...

Should the U.S. get rid of the penny? Students operate with decimals to calculate the total costs to produce different U.S. coins. Students debate eliminating the penny and then consider a world with ...

Can he do that? It’s not clear. But President Trump is right when he says that pennies “literally cost us more than 2 cents.”

In the real-world 🌎  lesson Opportunities' Costs by Citizen Math, students write and solve systems of linear equations to determine how long it would take to pay off various degrees and discuss the...