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A full set of ready-to-run materials for your grade level in your inbox each month.
Once a month you receive a single email with all the Core Four routines for your grade level: Math Talk, Partner Sort, DARE-ing Application Problem with Answer Guide, and Thinking Pathway Task or Proof Game, all built around one aspect of a grade-level standard. Four seasonal webinars and a monthly Beyond the Answer post come with it. No cost, no cohort commitment.
Who this is for
Curious teachers
Try a routine with your own students before you decide anything.
Teams comparing options
See the approach in practice while you talk through a cohort year.
Leaders keeping an eye out
Follow the webinars and see whether this fits your buildings.
What’s included
A full set of ready-to-run materials for your grade level in your inbox each month.
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A monthly email with the Core Four
A monthly email with all the Core Four™ routines, ready to run: Math Talk, Partner Sort, DARE-ing™ Application Problem with Answer Guide, and a Thinking Pathway Task or Proof Game, all built around one aspect of a grade-level standard.
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Four seasonal webinars
Four seasonal webinars that build your understanding of the Core Four, live with recordings.
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Beyond the Answer subscription
Monthly Beyond the Answer subscription, short reads on the instructional shifts happening in Math Empowered classrooms.
Free webinars
- Tue Sept 22, 7:00 PM ET
- Tue Jan 12, 7:00 PM ET
- Tue Apr 20, 7:00 PM ET
- Tue May 18, 7:00 PM ET
What arrives each month
Math Talk
A single slide plus the facilitation moves that go with it.
Partner Sort
Cards, pairings, and the question that gets students defending a choice.
DARE-ing Application Problem with Answer Guide
One real application problem with an answer guide you can read in a minute.
Thinking Pathway Task or Proof Game
A task or game that puts the same idea into students' hands for a full class period.
Built on the Core Four™
The Core Four, daily
Math Talks, Partner Sorts, DARE-ing Application Problems, and Thinking Pathway Tasks and Proof Games, used as everyday routines rather than special occasions.
Teacher-Start to Student-Start
Shift the thinking to students: they notice, try, defend, and revise, while you facilitate the conversation that follows.
Embedded differentiation
Open grade-level access with representations and entry points already built into the task, so more students can join the same mathematics.
Intervention in the moment
Read student thinking as it happens and respond during the lesson, instead of waiting for the next unit or the next assessment.
174 → 188 → 201
One Grade 2 class's NWEA MAP Growth math averages: fall, winter, spring.
This class began the year at 174, level with the national fall average for Grade 2. NWEA's 2025 norms put typical fall-to-spring growth for a Grade 2 class at 14 points. This class gained 27, and finished above the national spring average for the end of Grade 3. One classroom is not a controlled study and we present it as one classroom. What the numbers show is what the teacher described: students who could talk about their thinking and carry it from one day to the next.
“If you want your students to be engaged with math and see great student thinking, give Math Empowered a try.”
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