When students label their thinking precisely, their understanding becomes visible. By requiring the unit and the descriptor, we help students show meaning with their models.

This post explores how to select or adapt number stories that invite sense-making, honor students’ experiences, and align with instructional goals.

After three years with Structures of Equality, fourth grade teacher Jasmin isn’t just trying it out, she’s all in. Her story offers insight into what changes when comprehension leads and scaffolds support real thinking.

The Parts Equal Total structure isn’t a shortcut for solving; it’s a way to understand what’s happening in the story. This blog explores how PET supports comprehension from the earliest grades through more complex problems.

A reflection on how Pam Seda’s work validates my mission to bring equity, comprehension, and deep thinking into math classrooms.

Many students struggle with math not because of computation, but because they don’t know where to start. Learn how Structures of Equality (SoE) helps students decode word problems and build confidence in problem-solving.

Two educators. One goal: help students understand word problems. Discover how the Structures of Equality (SoE) framework came to life, and why it works.

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.

Are your students focusing too much on choosing the ‘right’ structure? Learn how emphasizing the math main idea with Structures of Equality can change how students approach and solve math word problems.

Accuracy in visual math representations helps students understand the relationships between quantities. When should you hold students accountable?

Tired of your kids plucking out the numbers and not reading the number story? Try numberless word problems.

Find out why number lines shouldn’t be used until 2nd grade and what to use instead.