Shaped: The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Blog

Forgotten Stories of the Oregon Trail: Trailblazing Business

Inspire students with this story of entrepreneurship on the Oregon Trail and use the paired activity to help kids make their own business plan.

July 21, 2020

Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 5: Conducting Surveys and More

Students will learn about conducting surveys, experiments, and observational studies, as well as frequency distributions, weighted averages, and expected values.

June 17, 2020

Math Meets Culinary Arts: How Do Chefs Use Math in Their Job?

Explore the role that math plays in cooking with this episode of HMH's Math at Work web series.

June 16, 2020

Math Meets Homebuilding: How Do Homebuilders Use Math in Their Careers?

In this Math at Work web series episode, students dive into how expert construction workers count on mathematics when building homes.

June 16, 2020

Math Meets Entrepreneurship: How Is Math Used in Business?

Discover the power and importance of real-life math with insights from industry leaders who work directly with real students in Math at Work.

June 09, 2020

Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 4: Measures of Central Tendency and More

Help students gain greater understanding of measures of central tendency and dispersion, outliers, transformations of data, and sampling techniques.

June 01, 2020

Grade 3 Math Activity: In Our Corner of Space

Help students gain understanding of informational text through active reading.

May 28, 2020

Grades 6–8 Math Activity Set 4: Sweet Success and More

Help students build their skills in working with fractions, decimals, ratios, and percent.

May 28, 2020

Grades 9-12 Math Activity Set 3: Geometric Probability and More

Help students build their skills in the areas of geometric probability, characterizing data, data displays, and matrices.

May 20, 2020

Grado 1 actividades de matematicas: Mis cuentos de animales

Este proyecto usa el contexto de los animales para ampliar el conocimiento de los números hasta el 10.

May 11, 2020