Tile Farm Returns to City of STEM 2026
For the third year in a row, Tile Farm is excited to be part of the City of STEM + Los Angeles Maker Faire, and we can’t wait to see you there this Sunday! Held at Exposition Park on April…
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Bring Tile Farm Academy to Your School in 2026–27
Tile Farm Academy is a simple 5–10 minute daily math routine that helps students build number sense, fact fluency, flexible thinking, problem-solving skills, confidence, and a genuine love of math. If you are interested in exploring a possible pilot for…
Tile Farm Presents at New Mexico State Capitol with NMUDL Educators
On Friday, March 6, team members from Tile Farm participated in an event at the New Mexico State Capitol hosted by the New Mexico Universal Design for Learning (NMUDL) initiative. NMUDL works to build educator capacity across the state by…
Tile Farm Teacher Fellowship: February Recap
Number Sense and Fluency with Daily Digits In February, the Spring 2026 Tile Farm Teacher Fellowship shifted its focus to number sense and fluency through Daily Digits, Tile Farm’s short, adaptive routine designed to build mathematical confidence and flexible thinking.…
Tile Farm at NCTM 2026 in Indianapolis
The NCTM Spring Conference 2026 is coming to Indianapolis this February 11–13, bringing together math educators from across the country to share classroom strategies, practical routines, and engaging approaches to teaching and learning mathematics. Tile Farm will be hosting two…
Tile Farm Teacher Fellowship: January Recap
The first month of the Spring 2026 Tile Farm Teacher Fellowship focused on “How Many”, a Tile Talk activity centered on creative question asking. Teacher Fellows were invited to play with the activity on their own, try it out with…
Why Tile Farm Works So Well for Homeschool Math
Homeschooling has a way of sharpening your instincts as a parent. When you’re choosing the curriculum, setting the pace, and learning right alongside your kids, you get very clear about what’s actually working. Math, especially, has always been an area…
Healing Teachers’ Relationship with Math
For many students, math anxiety doesn’t begin with numbers, it begins with adults. A growing body of research suggests that teachers’ and caregivers’ attitudes toward math can significantly shape how children experience the subject. When adults feel anxious, uncertain, or…
Tile Talk: A Free, High-Impact Resource for Joyful Math PD
Some of the most powerful professional learning doesn’t come from lengthy presentations or complex frameworks, it comes from interactive experiences full of genuine mathematical curiosity. Tile Talk was originally designed as a student-facing math discussion resource: low-floor, high-ceiling activities built…
Experimentation, Play, and Great Thinkers
What’s the best way to develop great scientific and mathematical minds? It can be helpful to draw inspiration from some of the great thinkers of our era. As a kid, Vera Rubin used to watch the stars drift past her…