When people ask what age groups Tile Farm Academy is designed for, they are often surprised by our answer: PreK to PhD. In fact, our entire team regularly plays, experiments, and makes new discoveries inside Tile Farm Academy. To some,…
By Alex Romero In addition to wearing many hats at Tile Farm, I am a lifelong teacher and look for any opportunity I can to get back into the classroom. This past summer, I had the opportunity to teach a…
Tile Farm is proud to partner with Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) on a district-wide adoption of Tile Farm Academy for STEAM and make labs, supporting creative, visual, and student-centered mathematics learning across the district. This partnership builds on a successful…
By Julian Romero and Lauren Romero In addition to our work with Tile Farm, we have both spent many years teaching and always welcome opportunities to return to the classroom. This past fall, we taught an after-school course at San…
Tile Farm Academy meets the criteria for ESSA Tier 4 evidence (“Demonstrates a Rationale”), meaning it is supported by a clearly articulated, research-grounded logic model and ongoing efforts to study its impact. Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Tier…
Math anxiety has been described as a silent epidemic in education because it affects so many students, yet often goes unnamed or untreated. For students receiving Tier 2 and Tier 3 support, math anxiety is not a side issue, it…
Intervention Is About Healing Students’ Relationships with Math For many students, math intervention is not just about filling gaps in skills, it is about repairing a relationship with math. By the time students are identified for intervention, many have come…
Why Fluency Needs Creative Application The ultimate goal of fluency and number sense practice is not speed, it’s the ability to think flexibly about numbers and apply them in meaningful ways. A simple multiplication fact like 5 × 8 doesn’t…
Developed by a team of scientists, mathematicians and teachers, our approach to number sense and fluency is research backed, evidence-based, and firmly grounded in educational theory and cognitive neuroscience. What Tile Farm Academy Is Designed to Support Tile Farm Academy…
What Fluency Is and Why It Matters Whether it was doing times tables worksheets, practicing flashcards, or playing computer games to practice math facts, we all have memories of working on fluency in school. But in an age of calculators,…
