The Math for Love Curriculum

Not only was it fun, engaging, and effective for the students, it helped my ongoing dream of encouraging more play-based, gamifying of our math program. To that end, we have more teachers open and receptive to the use of games during this school year. Our instructional coaches... are also on board with this and I AM THRILLED!

...The program did what it was supposed to do for summer intervention AND it helped shift teaching practices for the general school year too in that the value of math games and routines was made evident????

“I’m constantly amazed at just how awesome the content is.”

"I absolutely loved the Math for Love curriculum. The students loved it as well. They often said the new games and activities were their favorite parts of the day… [T]he students engaged in critical thinking, mathematical discussions, risk taking, and working through challenges. In my opinion, that is the best way for us to engage students in math. It was the most fun I had teaching math, and having the curriculum made planning for math relatively easy."

“I feel like this summer made me realize how to translate my love of math for my students.”

I LOVED teaching it and want to push my daily lessons during the school year to be more like this.

Students loved the games. The curriculum supported important skills and was easy for teachers to use.

I’ve watched 1st graders who were struggling with counting (they were at a pre-k level) blossom and rapidly develop their skills through the tools from Math for Love. I’ve also seen highly capable 5th graders persevere through challenge problems that made them think – a task they are not asked to do enough. All told, we are big fans and many of the best moments happen when we are using your curriculum.

The students who scored low on the pretest, improved their posttest scores. Students who scored high on both the pretest and posttest were excellent team players in the Math game activities that kept their understanding of math concepts, and helped the other in the group who needed extra time.

I really appreciated the design. It was so user-friendly and I loved that it included prompting questions. I felt like I could rely on the curriculum for a very strong plan every day.

Highly engaging and fun. Students were actively working the whole time. Partner and group work was very engaging and meaningful.

I saw children: gain confidence with the meaning of multiplication and division; increase fact fluency; children who had been confused begin to want to offer ideas in whole class math conversations; children who had struggled with certain things begin to teach others

The kids were so happy and had fun, and LOVED telling me how they figured something out… I know that the kids will return to school with a greater acceptance of math, and without that, “I hate math,” attitude.