Our Work
The Number Lab is an organization whose mission is to advance the teaching and learning of mathematics through ongoing teacher professional development. The organization was founded to aid in ending the impoverished math experiences that characterized the background for so many of us. We seek to ensure that young learners have rich, meaningful mathematics learning experiences that are reflective of the complexity, connectedness, and wonder of the discipline of mathematics.
Our high quality professional learning opportunities are a serious investment in the single most important school resource: teachers. Through our highly innovative, practice-based math learning framework, we help build teachers’ mathematics knowledge and identities as math learners. This effort results in observable shifts in math learning practices that allow young learners to have a more positive and powerful experience with mathematics. Teachers learn to embrace our generative perspective of mathematics as well as our commitment to employing and optimizing practices that promote growth of critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity. Through their work, their students experience higher levels of engagement, a deeper level of learning, and a love for mathematics.
Because growth and change happen over time and through quality experiences, we emphasize the long-game. Our PD is not "one-stop". Instead, it is meant to operate as part of a deliberate, long-term effort of schools and districts to bring about substantive change.
The Number Lab is proud to be featured on
Transcend Education’s Innovative Models Exchange!
Our learning framework has allowed us to gain the attention of educators and educational leaders across the U.S. and in several other countries. In 2022, The Number Lab Math Block framework was added to Transcend Education’s list of inspiring learning models, The Innovative Models Exchange. Our inclusion in the Innovative Models Exchange was due in large part to our practices that support dynamic, multi-dimensional, concept-rich learning experiences, the kind of experiences that genuinely honor mathematics as an academic discipline.