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 The uncertainty around funding education is growing around the US. If the federal Department of Education is eliminated or greatly reduced, many educators are questioning whether Title I and other funds will be affected. At a time when budgets are tight, we’re pleased that Brick Math remains a very affordable curriculum for supplemental math instruction in grades K – 8. The program teaches math by utilizing plastic building bricks as manipulatives. It’s easy to teach and fun to learn!  The components of Brick Math are simple: For each of the thirteen math subjects, the teacher uses a Teacher Edition book of lesson plans, and each student uses a Student Edition workbook. Brick sets curated for the entire Brick Math program can be used by one student or shared between two students.  That’s it. There are no other materials to purchase. Paperback Teacher Editions cost $19.95 each and Student Editions cost $14.95 each. PDF versions of the books cost $4.95 each. The Brick Set costs $60. We offer the materials at a discount when grouped in “bundles” for grades K-2, 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8. We also offer discounts for schools for large purchases. Even when money is tight, schools still need to find the best ways to help their students learn. We think you’ll find that Brick Math is a very effective, as well as a very affordable program to help your students build math success.
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 We recently had a question from an elementary math teacher in Hawaii who wanted to know if Brick Math was suitable for RTI in grades 1 - 6. It’s a good question, and we thought we’d give everyone more information about using Brick Math for intervention.  The program is built on separate math subject matter, starting with Counting and Cardinality for the earliest learners, and going to Pre-Algebra. You choose the subject(s) that your students are working on. You can go straight through a lesson book from start to finish, or begin anywhere in the lesson book that you choose based on what your students already know. It’s a modular kind of program and very flexible. The brick sets are designed to work for all the subjects in the program. They can be used by one individual student or shared between two students.  Teachers often tell us that Brick Math has worked well in an intervention setting because it presents the math in a different way than the students have seen it before. It’s tactile, and it engages students first because they enjoy working with the bricks, but also because it requires them to translate the 3-D brick models to 2-D drawings and then into words.  Brick Math Teacher Editions are the lesson books that the teacher uses. The Student Editions are the workbooks that students write in to record their math work, as well as completing chapter assessments. They also include a chart to track students’ progress toward mastery, which is useful for teachers who see RTI students regularly. The Brick Math curriculum is divided into 13 separate content areas:
Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Basic Fractions, Basic Measurement, Fraction Multiplication, Fraction Division, Advanced Measurement and Geometry, Decimals, Data and Statistics, and Pre-Algebra. Students can start anywhere in the curriculum. Brick Math can be used as a complete math curriculum or brought in as a supplement to help students who aren't having math success with other programs. Check BrickMath.com to learn more!  The Brick Math FREE Lesson of the Month for March 2025 teaches students what subtraction is all about. It's from Brick Math Subtraction, and it's for early learners, giving them a concrete representation of what subtraction really means. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that.  The lesson, "What Does It Mean to Subtract?" shows students very clearly how subtracting works, and also introduces the vocabulary of subtraction -- minuend, subtrahend, and difference. Students build models of simple subtraction problems, then draw them and explain the math shown in their models and drawings.  That's the procedure followed throughout the entire Brick Math curriculum. Students move from a concrete representation of the math to a more abstract representation by drawing the models, then finally to a fully abstract understanding of the math when they describe it in words. In this way, Brick Math helps students gain a deep, true understanding of math, which sets them up for future success as they move through the K-8 curriculum. This Lesson of the Month shows 2 pages from the Subtraction Teacher Edition first, and then the corresponding workbook pages for students to use from the companion Subtraction Student Edition.  The Brick Math curriculum is divided into 13 separate content areas: Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Basic Fractions, Basic Measurement, Fraction Multiplication, Fraction Division, Advanced Measurement and Geometry, Decimals, Data and Statistics, and Pre-Algebra. Students can start anywhere in the curriculum. Brick Math can be used as a complete math curriculum or brought in as a supplement to help students who aren't having math success with other programs. Check BrickMath.com to learn more! |