Great Minds

Great Minds PBC is a public benefit corporation. Teachers and content experts write Great Minds curricula, applying their experience to create materials that resonate with students, teachers, and families. Great Minds curricula include Arts & Letters™, Wit & Wisdom™, Eureka Math², PhD Science® and Geodes® books for developing readers.

Great Minds

Solving Word Problems Using Tape Diagrams (Part 1)

January 14, 2017

In my 10 years as a 7th and 8th-grade teacher, I never once saw a tape diagram. I was hesitant to use this model, but as I began to really study tape...

Conceptual Understanding

Using Context to Understand the Rational Number System

January 13, 2017

STRATEGY

Conceptual Understanding

The Productive Struggle

January 11, 2017

The CCSS have been in existence for nearly 5 years. This time of transition has not been easy and it has challenged our way of thinking about...

Instructional Design

Channeling Our Efforts as Educators

January 4, 2017

As we are challenged with thinking about math in a different way than many of us learned, it’s helpful to stop and think about how we are spending...

Models Instructional Design

Read, Draw, Write: A Better Strategy for Solving

January 4, 2017

STRATEGY

Conceptual Understanding

Math for Life After the Test

January 10, 2016

When do you know you really understand something? One test is to see if you can explain it to someone else — well enough that they understand it....