Welcome to Experience Math K-8!
New England Educators
New England Educators
Experience Math © 2025 Grades K-8
Experience Math™, available in English and Spanish, is a student-centered K–8 curriculum that celebrates the art of teaching combined with the power of an engaged classroom. Through simple planning and high-value, in-the-moment professional learning, Experience Math helps you teach in both creative and purposeful ways:
Create Community through Discovery and Exploration
Strengthen Learning through Intentional Thinking
Establish Fluency through Practice and Gameplay
Gather Evidence of Learning through Purposeful Assessment Strategies
Dr. Marian Small, internationally renowned mathematics educator, author, and professional learning consultant, designed this K–8 curriculum that shares her mathematical knowledge and insights with every classroom and supports intentional teaching through thoughtful questioning.
Contributing Author, Graham Fletcher, has served as a math teacher, instructional lead, and specialist.
He added his expertise to:
Wonder Tasks and Making Connection Tasks: topic activities for students to practice and apply problem-solving activities
Developing fluency through coherent pathways using key features such as the Number Talks and Games
Introduction to Experience Math
Watch the Experience Math Overview Video and be inspired:
Explore a Sample Lesson
A 3-Part Lesson Lesson Designed for Action
Experience Math’s three-part lesson model encourages students to be active mathematical thinkers and problem solvers.
Increase Student Engagement
Built On Student-Centered Rich Tasks
Engage all student through Open Questions encourage a “low floor, high ceiling” discussion that invites all students to connect to prior learning and communicate mathematically. Making Connections Tasks are designed to integrate concepts from multiple mathematical domains by:
Providing additional opportunities to revisit and build important connections
Requiring students to apply mathematical skills and concepts they have learned
Asking students to solve complex problem swith multiple parts
Play-Based, Guided Inquiry
Topics within Experience Math’s kindergarten program feature Explorations and Lessons to help teachers address standards in a play-based environment.
Encourage the Sharing of Ideas Through Stories
Projectable Storytime Books can be used to promote inquiry, introduce mathematical concepts, and encourage the sharing of ideas.
Student Experience Book
The Student Experience Book is a resource for doing math, activating knowledge, and stirring ideas, because we believe the best way to learn is through experience.
All-new Experience Math from Savvas Learning Company actively engages students in math problem-solving and critical thinking. This Topic Sampler of the Student Experience Book contains examples of the Action Tasks, Journal Prompts, and the Your Turn Practice Questions.
The Student Experience book will:
• Help students connect tasks to important mathematical ideas
• Engage students with a gentle entry into the lesson
• Encourage students to come up with their own ideas
• Spiral back to the big ideas in many lessons
• Answer questions students are likely to raise
• Support students as they make sense of mathematics
Norm-Referenced Assessment Suite
The Savvas Math Screener and Diagnostic Assessments provide efficient and norm-referenced assessments integrated with Experience Math on Savvas Realize. Diagnose student needs, monitor progress towards year-end proficiency, and inform instruction.
SuccessMaker® Math
Personalized Learning through SuccessMaker Math. For connected learning support, SuccessMaker® Math is a K-8 adaptive personalized learning program effective for differentiation, acceleration, and intervention. This flexible, proven solution adjusts to learning needs in real time to support a year of growth in 20-minute sessions, three times a week.
Experience Math provides educators with flexible, just-in-time professional learning.
Marian’s Action Insights
Notes that provide information about the purpose of the task
Differentiating Instruction: suggestions for Parallel Tasks to support students who need more support or more challenge
What Could You Do If specific strategies for addressing common misconceptions and errors
Sample Student Responses and Strategies
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