As adults, we subconsciously engage in mathematical thinking every day. How do we teach those learned skills to our children? And how do we do it without projecting our own feelings about math?

This week, SUMM educator and math teacher Amy Gonzalez provides a look into ways adults can help the children in their lives learn the skills we take for granted.

In this week’s Talking Math, we’re highlighting a powerful tool for nurturing confidence and shifting perceptions about math: “Which One Doesn’t Belong?”

In this week’s Talking Math, we’ve chosen a few ways to involve your child in your travel plans, and share how they relate to different math skills.

In this week's Talking Math, we’re sharing three wet and wild activities that will help kids (and their adults!) explore math concepts.

In this week’s installment of Talking Math, we’ll be sharing some tips on how to use a farmers market to make math relatable and fun. We’ll also be sharing some tips to help you boost your confidence in the process.

When playing a game, how do you know that the moves you make are the best? Click to learn how math can help find a winning strategy 🎲

In this week’s Talking Math, we gathered even more of our favorite math books for preschool and pre-kindergarten age kids. This is not an exhaustive list, so look out for more book recommendations from us!

For this week’s Talking Math, we gathered some more of our favorite math books for preschool and pre-kindergarten age kids. This is not an exhaustive list, so look out for more book recommendations from us in coming weeks!

Reading to your child is important. But you already know that.

So for this week’s Talking Math, we gathered some of our favorite math books for preschool and pre-kindergarten age kids. This is not an exhaustive list, so look out for more book recommendations from us in coming weeks!

Happy 5/21/25! Until May 29th, we’ll be celebrating mathematical palindromes, and sharing easy and fun ways for you to incorporate them into your child’s daily life.

If you rip your favorite pants, do they become your favorite shirt? Click to learn how topology can help pin down what we mean by 'hole' 🕳️

Octagrams, or 8-pointed stars, can be found as symbols in artwork in many cultures and religions. Click to learn about the history of octagrams around the world, and how to make your own!

Tessellations are a fun way to explore shapes! From honeycombs in a beehive to tiles on your bathroom floor, you can find tessellations everywhere.