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 The FREE Brick Math Lesson of the Month for December 2025 is in response to a question from a teacher: "Can you help me explain regrouping to my students?" We certainly can! Decomposing is another term for regrouping, and this lesson helps student understand the concept. The lesson comes from Brick Math Addition. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that.  It's important that students start thinking in terms of groups of ten as early as possible, since our number system is base ten. The lesson here shows students how to add, and it also shows the answer in terms of ten. The problem adds the numbers 4 and 9, and shows the answer as 10 + 3, or 13.  Students will use this knowledge as they move forward learning to add and subtract. Using bricks to model the base ten concepts makes them easy for students to understand, and also makes it easy for teachers to teach! The lesson starts with the Teacher lesson plans for the first four pages, followed by the three corresponding pages in the Student workbook. Try this lesson of the month with your students to see the power of Brick Math in action!  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!
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 The free Brick Math Lesson of the Month for November 2025 covers a topic that many students find difficult to understand -- working with fractions that have different denominators. This lesson is taken from Brick Math Basic Fractions. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that.  After students have learned to add and subtract fractions that have the same denominators (for example, 3/8 + 2/8), it's time for them to learn how to add two fractions that have different, or unlike, denominators. In this lesson, students model the addition of 1/4 + 2/3. Before they can add the numerators, they must learn to find the Least Common Denominator to make the denominators the same. This lesson uses a wonderful technique called the "fraction train" to show clearly how to find the Least Common Denominator.  Using the studs on the bricks, students learn that the Least Common Denominator for this problem is 12. They model the two fractions with that denominator, then add the numerators. Along the way, students answer questions and explain in words why the math works. The Brick Math methods help students develop a deep understanding of math. The lesson starts with the Teacher lesson plans for the first four pages, followed by the three corresponding pages in the Student workbook. Try this lesson of the month with your students to see the power of Brick Math in action!  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!  We're well into the swing of the new school year, and Brick Math is the choice of so many educators and homeschoolers for their K-8 math curriculum. It works as a general curriculum, and also for intervention, supplement, and enrichment. This month's free Brick Math Lesson of the Month is on quotitive division and comes from Brick Math Division. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that.  Students need to learn both quotitive and partitive division. Partitive division involves taking a group of objects and dividing the objects into equal groups of a certain number. Quotitive division looks at the concept of division in a different way. It demonstrates how division is actually repeated subtraction. Quotitive division helps students connect division to subtraction in the same way that they learn to connect multiplication to addition.  This lesson about quotitive division starts with modeling a whole of 20, then counting down by 4s to zero. Each step is represented by a brick with 4 fewer studs, clearly showing students the repeated subtraction. At the end of the problem, the subtraction sentence 20 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 4 = 0, shown by the brick model that has been built, converts to the division sentence 20 ÷ 4 = 5. The lesson then continues with a second problem, starting with a new whole of 16 and counting down by 2s to zero, demonstrating 16 ÷ 2 = 8. The lesson starts with the Teacher lesson plans for the first four pages, followed by the three corresponding pages in the Student workbook. Try this lesson of the month with your students to see the power of Brick Math in action!  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 FREE Brick Math Lesson of the Month for September 2025 comes from Brick Math's Subtraction. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that. This lesson teaches students how to subtract within 20 and uses a strategy called "ten-frames," which helps students see the numbers as they relate to the number 10. This is key to helping students think about math in the base 10 system, without talking about that terminology yet.  The lesson starts with pages from the Teacher Edition of Brick Math Subtraction. The first model shows the concept of subtracting 6 minus 4. The next model shows 12 minus 8. In each case, the models are built on ten-frames, which help to show the numbers in the context of 10. The lesson uses important subtraction vocabulary words like subtrahend and difference.  The last two pages of the Lesson of the Month come from the Student workbook for Brick Math Subtraction. These are the pages students use as they follow the teacher's lesson. In these pages, the students respond to questions and draw the brick models as they build them. This is all part of the Brick Math learning method, which starts with building models, then drawing the models, and then explaining the math in words. It's a proven method that gets real results with students.  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!  Happy summer, everyone! The Brick Math Lesson of the Month for July 2025 is on Partitive Division, which means dividing into equal shares. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that. Partitive division is the kind of division that takes a whole and breaks it into equal parts. It's a great introduction to fractions as well as division.  In this lesson, the concept of division is presented as a real-world problem: sharing pieces of candy equally among friends. The bricks, with their easy-to-count studs, make it clear how many pieces will be in each group, as well as how many groups will be created. This is one of the most basic ideas in learning division, and it is illustrated so well using bricks! This Lesson of the Month shows pages from the Division Teacher Edition first, and then shows the corresponding workbook pages for students to use from the companion Division Student Edition. 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.  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 FREE Brick Math Lesson of the Month for June 2025 comes from Basic Fractions, and it teaches students about equivalent fractions. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that. Understanding the concept of equivalent fractions is important for learning to simplify fractions, a key skill. It's especially important when students are learning to add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators.  In this lesson, students learn the meaning of equivalent, then model equivalent fractions of sixteenths and twelfths. After students have mastered this concept, they will move to the next lesson, which is learning to find a common denominator so a fraction can be added and subtracted.  This Lesson of the Month shows pages from the Basic Fractions Teacher Edition first, and then shows the corresponding workbook pages for students to use from the companion Basic Fractions Student Edition. 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.  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!  MAYbe it's time for a new Brick Math free Lesson of the Month! Let's go back to Addition, and give you a lesson that is foundational to many other lessons throughout the Brick Math curriculum. This one teaches students about place value, and also shows how to add using the place value method. To get this lesson, from Brick Math Addition, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that.  In this lesson, the bricks are used to show the place values of ones, tens, and hundreds. A 1x1 brick models the ones place; a 1x2 brick models the tens place; a 1x3 brick models the hundreds place. Students start by creating models of 3-digit numbers. Once they understand how to model numbers, they use brick models to help them add numbers. It's a great way to explain the concept of place value, which is pivotal to so much math content that students will encounter in the years to come.  This Lesson of the Month shows pages from the Addition Teacher Edition first, and then shows the corresponding workbook pages for students to use from the companion Addition Student Edition. 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.  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!  Baby, it's cooooold outside (at least where we are)! So here's something to warm up your students: a free lesson that shows the meaning of multiplying by bundling bricks into sets of 10. From Brick Math Multiplication, the lesson is called "Place Value/Bundling Multiplication". To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that.  There are two math problems in this lesson of the month to show how the bundling technique works: first, 2 x 25, and second, 3 x 12. In both problems, the math is modeled to show the sets. The problems also show the difference in modeling if the numbers are reversed; i.e., 25 x 2 or 12 x 3. This Lesson of the Month shows 4 pages from the Multiplication Teacher Edition first, and then the corresponding workbook pages for students to use from the companion Multiplication 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!  Happy 2025! Let's start off the year with a free Brick Math lesson from Addition. It teaches the concept of adding with the "change" number unknown; for example, 2 + ___ = 5. To get this lesson, click here, and you'll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that. An important concept to learn in addition is being able to determine the solution when any one part of the equation is unknown. In the Brick Math program, students start learning to add with an unknown result. They then learn to add when the change number is unknown, and then, when the start number is unknown. In this way, students learn the part-part-whole relationships between numbers.  The "Change Unknown" lesson models an equation with bricks, leaving the "change" term blank. Then students develop their own strategies to determine what the change number is, by counting up, one-to-one correspondence, or by matching studs. The lesson shows students how to move the studs from the start location and place them on the result location, comparing uncovered studs that show the number that will be in the change location. The lesson also gives students practice using the addition vocabulary words addend and sum.  The second half of the Lesson of the Month comes from the Student workbook for Brick Math Addition. These are the pages students will use as they follow the teacher's lesson. In these pages, the students respond to questions and draw the brick models as they build them. This is all part of the Brick Math learning method, which starts with building brick models, then drawing the models, and then explaining the math in words. It's a proven method that gets real results with students.  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! |