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Get your elementary students hooked on math with these games and activities.
Alicia Ivory
Shaped Editor
January 24, 2022
Get your whole class feeling the love this February 14. Try these Valentine’s Day activities for middle school and high school students.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
January 24, 2022
Math 180 is a math intervention program for students in grades 5 and up. Find out how to use the math program to accelerate math learning for all students.
Brenda Konicke
Director of Professional Learning at Math Solutions
January 12, 2022
Before we say goodbye to 2021, let’s highlight our most-read and favorite Shaped blogs.
Christine Condon
Shaped Editor-in-Chief
December 14, 2021
Ready for a fresh start in your classroom? Say goodbye to the old and hello to the new with our fun New Year's activities for students.
Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Editor
December 14, 2021
A history of pi is given, showing how mathematicians across the West and East have contributed to our understanding of the constant pi.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
December 03, 2021
Celebrate the Festival of Lights with these Hanukkah classroom games and activities for elementary students.
Jordan Friedman
Shaped Editor
November 30, 2021
These strategies provide differentiated math instruction to K-12 teachers looking for ways to personalize their mathematics teaching.
Ellen Ullman
Shaped Contributor
November 15, 2021
Teach your students about the different ways to describe data, including the concepts of mean (average), median, and mode.
October 29, 2021
These math intervention strategies for struggling students provide lessons, activities, and ideas to support Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 math students who are two or more years behind grade level.
Richard Blankman
Shaped Editor
October 26, 2021
Teach students about graphing along the x and y axis on coordinate graphs as a visual method for showing relationships between numbers.
October 22, 2021
In this lesson, students will explore the parts that make up solid figures, including edges, faces, and vertices.
October 14, 2021
Try these fall activities for elementary students in your classroom that put a twist on common fall themes.
Shaped Staff
October 01, 2021
These ELL strategies for math instruction will help you with teaching math to English language learners and supporting math learning for multilingual students.
Shaped Staff
September 10, 2021
With this math lesson, you can teach students about coordinates, integers, coordinate planes, and functions on a graph.
September 01, 2021
Use these National Hispanic Heritage Month activities and lesson ideas to honor Hispanic American contributions and influences in our society.
Daniel Poremba
Senior Tier II Specialist, HMH
August 27, 2021
Teach students about the different types of polygons in mathematics, which can be described as flat, closed figures with three or more sides.
August 10, 2021
A place-value system is one in which the position of a digit in a number determines its value, and a place-value chart is a way to make sure digits are in the correct places.
July 27, 2021