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,…
This week I visited a Title I elementary school in the Southwest where STEAM Lab teacher Ms. Bell invited me to work with her 4th- and 5th-grade classes and walk her through our new Tile Farm Academy dashboard. I do…
The most transformative science and math learning often happens outside of school.
When we think of math’s greatest powers, one stands out: its ability to help us build. From baking cookies to painting a mural to designing a rocket ship, math allows us to take what we’ve learned and apply it creatively…
So many things we love—cooking, architecture, music, film, science, and technology—are deeply rooted at the intersection of art and math. These fields require a blend of deep thinking and boundless creativity. Yet too often in school, math and art are…