Shaped: The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Blog

Black Friday Classroom Activity and Lesson Plan: Teaching Math and Money

Download this Black Friday classroom activity to teach students about spending and budgeting along with decimals and percentages.

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November 22, 2019

3 Kindergarten Math Games and Activities for the Classroom

Download these math activities for kindergarten to teach your students about addition, numbers, and counting.

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November 14, 2019

Celebrate STEM Using Hands-On Experiments and Science Stories

On November 8 (and every day), try these quick, simple and easy STEM Day activities for elementary students—created by the Kitchen Pantry Scientist and author of STEAM project books, Liz Heinecke.

Liz Lee Heinecke

STEAM Author; The Kitchen Pantry Scientist

November 05, 2019

Shapes, Patterns, and Arrangements: Math Activities for Preschoolers

Since your students have a basic knowledge of colors and shapes, Pre-K is a good year to start tackling concepts such as patterns.

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September 30, 2019

How to Prepare Elementary School Students for Algebra

Ease elementary school students' transition from arithmetic to algebra by introducing them to algebra concepts throughout the elementary grades.

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September 16, 2019

4 Math Patterns Activities for Preschoolers

Use these patterns for preschool students to teach your earliest learners about an important mathematical topic.

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August 26, 2019

Math Activities for Preschoolers: Discovering Addition Concepts

Download these activities for preschoolers to teach early learners about addition using visual representations.

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August 01, 2019

3 Math Activities for Preschoolers: Addends Worksheets

Use these downloadable math activities for PreK students to teach your early learners about addends and number partners.

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July 18, 2019

What One Middle School Math Teacher Learned at NCTM 2019

Joe Barry, HMH's Numeracy Counts ambassador, recalls his trip to the annual National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition.

Joe Barry

Teacher, Hopkins Middle School

July 16, 2019

Prime Numbers, Trapdoors, and Cracking Codes: A Math Puzzle—Part 1

Surprisingly—or maybe unsurprisingly to some—staying safe in the digital age has a lot to do with math.

Ally Zmijeski

Associate Learning Architect, Math

July 03, 2019