From Family Math Events to Everyday Practice: What We’re Learning in Los Angeles
By Dr. Michelle Pyo, PowerMyLearning Math can happen anywhere. Family Math is the everyday opportunity for children and families to talk about and make sense of math together, whether they’re at the store, cooking dinner, or playing a game. At its heart, Family Math helps children experience mathematics not just as something they do at […]
Continue ReadingGood “Math Hygiene” Makes Math an Everyday Practice
By Carl Slater, Senior Manager of NAFSCE’s Center for Family Math “We shouldn’t wait for the dentist to brush our teeth, so why wait for the classroom to make math fun?” Even though I’m the newest member to the C4FM team, Family Math has been a longstanding core of my own work and life. As […]
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Building Family Math Where Families Are: A Q&A with Jayashree Sonti
Holly Kreider (Center for Family Math): At the Center for Family Math, we’ve recently pulled together a “Family Math Playbook,” designed to help organizations build and sustain Family Math programming. In the Playbook’s 4-step process, the very first step is about reflecting and planning. In our conversations about the program you founded, the Early Math […]
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Math Happens, Naturally
Chelsea Fay, STEM Education Specialist, Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance What if some of the best opportunities for math learning were already waiting just outside the door? Many families look for ways to keep math skills strong over the summer. Supporting math learning doesn’t require special materials or structured lessons. While access to outdoor spaces […]
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Math Is Magical: A Conversation with TERC About Family Math
The Center for Family Math recently sat down with Audrey Martínez-Gudapakkam and Sabrina De Los Santos Rodríguez from TERC, a nonprofit math and science education organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to learn more about their work and impact on a variety of projects including: Aprendiendo, the Paraeducator and Parent Partnership Project, Doing the Math with […]
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Bridging Literacy and Numeracy: Folding Family Math into Proven Engagement Models
By Rebecca Chrystal, Raising a Reader At Raising a Reader, our evidence-based model has long focused on building home-based reading routines to drive literacy. However, research shows that math skills at kindergarten entry are the strongest predictor of both math and literacy achievement by 8th grade. Recognizing this, we forged a unique partnership with the […]
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What the Inaugural Family Math Dissertation Fellows have Taught Us about Family Math
By Holly Kreider, Director of Family Math at NAFSCE, and Jeffrey Snyder, Research and Policy Associate at NAFSCE We launched the Family Math Dissertation Fellows Program with the goal of strengthening the bridge between rigorous research and everyday practice with families. The inaugural cohort took that charge seriously. Each Fellow produced a research-to-practice brief grounded […]
Continue ReadingPress Release: Sunrise Elementary Hosts First Family Math Backpack Distribution as part of the California Family Math Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SUNRISE ELEMENTARY HOSTS FIRST FAMILY MATH BACKPACK DISTRIBUTION AS PART OF THE CALIFORNIA FAMILY MATH INITIATIVEFamily Event Ensures Every TK–2nd Grade Student Receives Resources to Support Math Learning at Home Los Angeles – January 28, 2026 – Sunrise Elementary School will be the first school to receive Family Math Book Bags for […]
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Connecting through numbers: Lessons from a Family Math pilot program
By Iliana Gallego, Communication Specialist at the Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE) For many families, math is a difficult subject to support at home. Countless adults might not see math as part of their daily life and practices, and it soon becomes a distant memory of what they learned in school rather than an […]
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Designing At the Margins: A Conversation with Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff and Dr. Paulo Tan on Engaging Families of Children with Learning Differences in Mathematics
In this conversation, Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff and Dr. Paulo Tan speak with The Center for Family Math about how families raising children with learning differences can reshape the way we think about math learning. Their conversation explores inclusive practices, Universal Design for Learning, the importance of time, and how families can be advocates, co-creators, […]
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