OUR MISSION

Making Math is dedicated to supporting teachers and schools in creating classrooms where students get to pose their own real world and pure* mathematics questions and undertake long-term investigations and projects to answer those questions. Too often, students are driven to ask, "why am I learning this?" They have a right to know! However, their studies should make it obvious all along as they use their technical skills and problem solving habits to carry out interesting and meaningful tasks.​ Toward those goals, Making Math shares two whole courses – one on mathematical modeling and one on mathematics research – and numerous lessons, activities, investigations, and projects that can be incorporated into courses within the traditional secondary school mathematics sequence.

 

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These materials are for all to use, and adapt, to their liking. To facilitate your efforts, most files are shared both as PDFs, to assure their layout, and as Word documents, to enable modification. They are shared (except where noted) under this Creative Commons license: © 2025 by Joshua Abrams and Making Math licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which gives anyone permission to use, modify, and share in turn under the same conditions (preserving original credit to Joshua Abrams/Making Math and preserving the same CC BY-NC-SA license requirements). Anyone wishing to share these original materials or any derivative versions for commercial purposes or profit must contact Making Math for permission.