Math Education Reimagined
The Number Lab works with educators and schools to advance the teaching and learning of mathematics through professional development opportunities that support meaningful shifts in content, culture, and pedagogy—all driven by The Number Lab's Generative Framework for Mathematics.
Our work is to assist teachers in presenting mathematics in a way that children experience it as an ever-growing, coherent body of knowledge founded upon essential, connective understandings—resulting in deep mathematical understanding, a positive mathematical identity, and strong reasoning skills.
One of the things that makes The Number Lab unique is that our work is grounded in daily classroom practice—we are practicing educators. We have a school in Austin, Texas called Long-View Micro School, where our framework is implemented, tested, and refined with students every day. It is the proof of concept for decades of work in mathematics education, and it is the laboratory from which everything we offer educators grows.
We are learning for the long view.
Offerings
Workshops
We teach and support educators across the country. We travel to schools to run workshops, host institutes in select cities each summer, coach teachers wtihin the structure of their own classroom, and conduct field study days embedded within our lab classrooms at our micro school. And a cadre of “Partner Schools” get on-going and strategic support to facilitate thoughtful, significant revision of their math program over an extended period of time.
Membership
Our subscription-based website called Learning for the Long-View provides sustained support in developing content knowledge and shifting to more complex pedagogy in a personal, just-in-time format. The platform offers users a variety of videos, guides, lesson plans, and graphics that help educators strengthen their own mathematical reasoning, consider how teaching strategies impact learning, and even follow a group of students across a year.
Products
From t-shirts to important models like the Rekenrek and 100 Chart, to anchor charts and lesson plans, we have both physical products and digital downloads to support your work. Coming soon: a curriculum resource with supportive coaching detailing our Unitization Unit (our crucial first unit), a Foundational Numeracy Resource Kit to help you establish number reasoning in the early years, and a series of 1-page free downloads.
Testimonials
The Number Lab is proud to be featured on Transcend Education’s Innovative Models Exchange.
Our learning framework has allowed us to gain the attention of educators and educational leaders across the U.S. and in several other countries. In 2022, The Number Lab’s Math Block was added to Transcend Education’s list of inspiring learning models, The Innovative Models Exchange. Our inclusion in the Innovative Models Exchange was due in large part to our practices that support dynamic, multi-dimensional, concept-rich learning experiences, the kind of experiences that genuinely honor mathematics as an academic discipline.
