You know that math curriculum needs to be changed to engage more students. You know that bringing culturally relevant examples to the math classroom helps the math ideas stick better. You created that one really good lesson 5 years ago when kids loved the game 2048, but we’re about 23 “games of the year” past that. However, the inspiration to create isn’t there. The effort to pull together a quality lesson that fully engages students mathematically is a bit beyond your scope right now, but you want the best for your students… enter Citizen Math!
Citizen Math has been around for some time and used to be called Mathalicious. When I first started teaching, I used Mathalicious for inspiration when I wanted to create a real world based project for students – they had a collection of math projects organized by grade that were their own material or resources from other places.
Recently, I decided to go back to their website for inspiration and was blown away by how things had changed! Now, they have their own projects and everything can be taught from the website. I teach in virtual homeschools and after trying their demo lessons with my students, I purchased the Individual Access for the year.
The lessons on Citizen Math are engaging to students – they choose topics that are engaging because they are fun or because they are relevant. Whichever one it is, there will be a nice launching activity to get students thinking about the real world and as the lesson progresses, those ideas are quantified numerically or algebraically.
This is my official, unpaid endorsement of Citizen Math!
Math Aunty 
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