Sometimes it feels like your students are playing a guessing game when it
comes to number stories. Learn how SoE helps them understand and the research that
backs it.

April 2, 2025

The “why” behind SoE: rethinking wordproblems

Are your students struggling with the PET structure? Use manipulatives and visual representations to gradually build their confidence and understanding.

February 26, 2025

Helping Students Understand the Total Bar in a PET Structure

Struggling to help students with word problems? 1st-grade teacher Matt Spirakus shares how Structures of Equality transformed his approach.

November 20, 2024

Why this 1st-grade teacher is all in on Structures of Equality

The main idea is as critical in math as it is in literacy. And it’s a key component of Structures of Equality.

October 16, 2024

Finding the main idea in math?

Watch Valerie Faulkner connect what students know about composing and decomposing numbers to solve with a Parts Equal Total (PET) structure.

May 29, 2024

Using bar models to support students with solving number stories

Bar models are the foundation for SoE. Learn how they’re enhanced through the structures.

September 20, 2023

Word Problem Instruction Reinvented