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Creating cultures where math is for everyone
Across the country, schools are rewriting their math story—shifting from mimicking steps to making sense of mathematics.
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The Math Culture Lab by EduQuate partners with schools to transform math culture—building communities where student thinking drives instruction, teachers deepen their mathematical content knowledge, and every learner sees themselves as a math person.
Math can be joyful, empowering, and challenging. Let’s create that culture—together.
Math Vision
Math can — and should — be joyful, empowering, and challenging for everyone. This vision comes to life when math teaching and learning are grounded in these core beliefs:
🌟 1. Math is about learning to problem solve, form arguments, ask questions, and critique reasoning
🛑 Math is not about mimicking steps or using algorithms without understanding
🌟 2. Math is a collaborative, discourse-rich experience
🛑 Math is not an individual pursuit
🌟 3. Math is a web of connected ideas
🛑 Math is not a linear sequence of disconnected concepts
🌟 5. Teaching math is about building from how people think and make meaning
🛑 Teaching math should not focus on right answers
🌟 4. Math is creative, evolving, and relevant—it is discovered, debated, and world-shaping
🛑 Math is not fixed or figured out
🌟 6. Access to challenging math courses and ambitious teaching is a social justice issue
🛑 Advanced math is not for some “smart math people”
How we Support
Partnerships
Through strategic planning, a customized arc of professional learning, and targeted resources, we coach teams to build the capacity to cultivate a problem-solving math culture and teach for deep understanding.
Institutes
Our in-person institutes give educators the chance to experience the math culture shift we describe in our vision and leave with practical tools that bridge vision and daily practice.
Resources
We’ve created a collection of guides, videos, templates, tools, and a practitioner blog to help you plan strategically, lead professional learning, and bring research-based math practices to life in your school or classroom.
