Bringing Math to Life through Stories
Meet the MATH CORPS, a brave band of superheroes who use math powers to trick Professor Possum and save their golden planet. The Math Corps thwart common math misconceptions and help foster key practices through engaging stories.
Teachers use the Math Corps posters, videos, comics, and eBooks to help their students understand the importance of justifying one’s thinking, being persistent, and using different strategies. With content spanning grades K-5, Math Corps was made possible by grant funding from the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences.
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Math Practice Standards
Each of the Math Corps characters embody one of the 8 Math Practices and explain the standard in a more child-friendly way. For example, the standard “Reason abstractly and quantitatively”, challenging for early elementary teachers to explain, is a set of twins who help students understand the need to consider both the numbers and their meaning.
In each story, Professor Possum makes the same mistakes children often make when learning math. The Math Corps heroes outwit the professor and model how to avoid these common misconceptions.
Math Corps video lessons and eBooks are included in Teachley’s classroom, school, and district subscriptions. Teachley is an essential math learning program for grades K-5 that teaches important math strategies and improves conceptual understanding, fact fluency, problem solving, and fractions skills through research-based interventions with lessons, games, stories, and more.
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