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Learning approaches under the Prototyping Track are designed and developed to embed executive function skill-building opportunities within equitable, high-quality math content and instruction. Seven teams were awarded in this track.
These bold and innovative projects include several critical components. They:
Are based in rigorous research on how students learn math and learn math-relevant executive function skills,
Are focused on conceptual understanding and multi-step problem solving in math,
Align with the constraints and assets of real-world learning environments and arise from educator expertise on how math is taught in today’ classrooms,
Are designed and developed using an Inclusive R&D process,
Intentionally design for equity, from the beginning and throughout the work and
Leverage knowledge from designers and developers about how programs and products can achieve impact at scale.
Spark Math
Spark Math
A comprehensive set of replacement units that attend to cultural relevance, math identity and belonging, executive functions, mathematization of concepts that students find relevant, the realities of classrooms and current practice, and classroom social norms.
Grade: Middle (6)
Principal Investigators: Brent Milne & Krista Marks
Lead Organization: Saga Education
EF+Math Co-Design District Partners: Middletown
ELC Representatives: Jennifer Davis & Curtis Taylor
M&M Liaisons: Caitlin Tenison & Florencia Tolentino
Mathematical Thinkers Like Me
Mathematical Thinkers Like Me
An online collaborative problem solving and storytelling program that supports students in developing their identity and strengths as mathematical thinkers with strong executive function skills.
Grades: Middle (6-8)
Principal Investigator: Stephen Weimar
Lead Organization: The 21st Century Partnership for STEM
EF+Math Co-Design District Partners: Newark & Vista
ELC Representative: Melynee Naegele & Jeannette Franklin
M&M Liaison: Aurora Graf & Marisol Kevelson
Integration of EF and Math Training
Integration of EF and Math Training
Set of high quality lessons, group tutoring, and games and puzzles that combine math and executive function skill-building, focused on developing deep conceptual and procedural knowledge of fractions.
Grades: Elementary (3-5)
Principal Investigator: Michael Cohen
Lead Organization: Cignition
EF+Math Co-Design District Partners: Newark & Vista
ELC Representatives: Aimee Penn & Maxim Vickerie
M&M Liaisons: Alexis Lopez & Florencia Tolentino
Our Mathematical World
Our Mathematical World
A program that includes a sequential set of activities designed to center students as strong math problem solvers who use appropriate EF skills to guide their process.
Grades: Elementary (3–5)
Principal Investigators: Caroline Hornburg & David Purpura
Lead Organization: Purdue University
EF+Math Co-Design District Partners: Middletown
ELC Representatives: Ayesha Hunter & Matin Abdel-Qawi
M&M Liaisons: Aurora Graf & Marisol Kevelson
CueThinkEF+
CueThinkEF+
A web-based learning system for facilitating collaborative mathematical discourse and problem solving with embedded executive function scaffolds and supports to create safe spaces for historically marginalized students to express their ideas and share their thinking and reasoning.
Grades: Middle (6-8)
Principal Investigator: Sheela Sethuraman
Lead Organization: CueThink
ELC Representatives: Rose Kendrick & Maria Benzon
M&M Liaisons: Kofi James & Priya Kannan
MathicSTEAM
MathicSTEAM
An innovative three-layer instructional approach that uses interactive graphic novels, individual game-based learning, collaborative learning experiences that facilitate team work and academic discourse, and opportunities to engage in problem-based learning activities that link to math in the real world.
Grade: Elementary (5)
Principal Investigator: Twana Young & Martin Buschkuehl
Lead Organization: MIND Research Institute
ELC Representatives: Luis Torres (Marian Dingle -- Emeritus)
M&M Liaisons: Kofi James & Priya Kannan
Fraction Ball
Fraction Ball
A series of movement-based games that make meaningful connections between math learning in the classroom and the schoolyard and provide a playful context for students to engage in embodied rational number learning, while strengthening executive function skills.
Grades: Elem/Middle (3–8)
Principal Investigator: Andres Bustamante
Lead Organization: UC Irvine
ELC Representatives: Pedro Rodriguez & Sofia Guerrero
M&M Liaisons: Caitlin Tenison & Andrew Finnegan
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