Teaching with the Materials

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Supports Students with Learning Differences

Stern Math has been extremely successful in teaching students with learning differences, children with language processing difficulties and children whose first language is not English. Most of the learning with Stern is done through direct tactile and visual experience and language is grounded in the concrete lessons. Each activity and game can be tailored to meet the individual needs of each learner. We've had success teaching students with dyscalculia, ADHD, dyslexia, and autism.

Tutoring - Reinforces Learning Complex Concepts

Great as a 1-on-1 tool. Engages shy and hesitant students with physical materials that are fun to play games with. Each activity and game can be tailored to meet the individual needs of each learner.

Interactive Homeschooling Method

Highly structured multi-sensory approach makes parents feel confident teaching complex math concepts. Each manipulative is self-correcting. The games provide a fun and efficient way for children to become excellent students of math with a strong sense of themselves as problem solvers.

Multisensory Math Program for Preschoolers

Start your kids building number sense as early as possible. Kids who are 2 years old can start playing with our materials and learning math.

Supplements Existing Mathematics Curricula

Stern Math can be taught as a stand-alone curriculum, or it can be easily adapted to supplement any curriculum currently being used. It can also be used by specialists, interventionists or tutors to help students solidify underlying foundational math concepts.

The Common Core standards put more of an emphasis than before on abstract reasoning and problem solving. Stern Math provides the concrete representations needed to develop an understanding of the mathematical concepts, and to build a foundation for understanding pictorial and abstract representations.

Concepts and Skills

  • Stern Math materials support the development of a strong number sense, an understanding of order and quantity, a firm grasp of the four operations and a fluency with facts. Each of these manipulatives can be used for several different teaching goals, thereby reinforcing and deepening understanding of concepts and their relationships.