Mathematics Education

A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever. 

Learn about subtraction.

Likely or unlikely? Possible or impossible? Probability is how likely something is. Will it be rainy or sunny for the party? Where will the spinner land? Listen and find out!

Upbeat, fun music will help kids learn addition facts for 8.

Upbeat, fun music will help kids learn addition facts for 0 and 1. The "Zero Strategy" and "Count Up One Strategy" will encourage kids to learn addition facts quickly.

We can learn many things from models. Scientists use models to test their ideas. Listeners will learn about the importance of making predictions, testing ideas, collecting data, and more.

Upbeat, fun music will help kids learn addition facts for 4.

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This ten-part history of mathematics reveals the personalities behind the calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that mathematics is...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Humble Pi written and read by Matt Parker. What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? Billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? A building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The...

Music makes learning math facts 0-12 easy and fun. Kids will listen and say each fact and answer beginning with facts of one, all the way through the multiple of twelve.

Estimating is a smart way of guessing the number of something. Discover tips and tricks to help you guess the number of jelly beans and other fun estimating challenges.

From rectangular ladders to circular rings and hexagonal picnic tables, the park is full of shapes! Fun rhyming text will engage young children as they learn.

Bust the math myths that are holding you and your kids back and learn the importance of numeracy with this one-of-a-kind resource for parents, educators, and policymakers Shalinee Sharma is one of the world’s top experts on math learning, but when she was in school, she sat in the back row...

Upbeat, fun music will help kids learn subtraction facts for 11.

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur.

Upbeat, fun music will help kids learn division facts.

Upbeat, fun music will help kids learn addition facts for 4. Repetition and practice are key to learning addition facts. Reciting both facts and answers at a slower tempo, and then doing the facts again at a faster tempo will encourage kids to learn math facts quickly all while having a blast.

Learn addition and subtraction! Addition: Songs that teach addends 0-9 and addition strategies. Subtraction: Songs that teach minuends 0-18, subtraction strategies, and fact families.

Learn multiplication and division! Multiplication: Songs that teach every multiplication fact separately: the identity property, the zero property, skip counting, and review the facts! Division: Songs that teach division terminology, strategies for division, and division facts 0-9.