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Meet Sharon Biava, a 4th grade math teacher at Silver Lakes Elementary in Miramar, Florida. A proud single mother of twins, Sharon has been an educator for 18 years and is a coach for both speech and debate and the chess team. She is passionate about literacy, civics, and equity for all students.

Ali Habashi
Former Shaped Editor

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Get tips to combat summer slide for math students in elementary, middle, and high school.

Julia Roch

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Priyank Bhatt, a lead math teacher at West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, discusses his personal and professional journey, which began in India. From learning English with the help of a dedicated ELA teacher—and American cartoons—to excelling in math class and eventually tutoring his friends, Priyank forged a path rooted in education.

Ali Habashi
Former Shaped Editor

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Read about an entrepreneur on the Oregon Trail and download a free activity to help kids make a business plan.

Shaped Staff

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Students will learn about conducting surveys, experiments, and observational studies, as well as frequency distributions, weighted averages, and expected values.

Shaped Staff

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Explore how math meets homebuilding with this Math at Work web series episode answering the question: How do homebuilders use math in their careers?

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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Students will read stories about people's experiences on the Oregon Trail and work on related activities that will help them build their skills in math, science, ELA, and other subject areas.

Glenn Greenberg
Shaped Contributor

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Help children in Grade 5 strengthen their ability to use operations with whole numbers and sharpen their measurement skills with this activity.

Shaped Staff

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Este proyecto usa el contexto de los animales para ampliar el conocimiento de los números hasta el 10.

Shaped Staff

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El recurso de instrucción que se muestra a continuación está diseñado para ayudar a los estudiantes a ampliar el conocimiento de los números.

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Put students in Grades 6-8 on the path to making knowledgeable purchasing decisions with these free activities ideal for at-home learning.​

Shaped Staff

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Population health researcher Drew Harris explains a simple chart that shows how staying home can slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Download math lessons for high school students focusing on probability, mutually exclusive and overlapping events, and recognizing independent and dependent events.

Shaped Staff

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Download financial literacy activities for middle school students and teach them about topics including wages, salaries, and careers.

Shaped Staff

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Economics professor Annamaria Lusardi shares insights on how to teach financial literacy in challenging times.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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With schools closed, ICLE's Weston Kieschnick offers tips to keep the academic momentum going and ideas on what to focus on as children learn at home.

Weston Kieschnick
Associate Partner, ICLE

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Learn the basic ideas of what Boolean algebra is, along with some history and examples. Use the free activity to have high school students practice evaluating logical Boolean expressions.

Fernando J. Castillo