Joyful, Confidence-Building Math

Trapezium Math works with schools, districts and families to make math engaging and exciting for young math learners.

Trapezium partners with schools and districts to provide a variety of turn-key programming options that help to meet the unique needs of each district, school and student. Programming includes: intervention, 10-minute math, after school math club and kindergarten core curriculum.

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Trapezium partners with parents and families to support joyful, at-home math learning. We offer online math clubs as well as a variety of printables, games and activities that families can do at home.

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About Trapezium

Over the past 15 years, Trapezium has developed content aimed at building confident, fearless math learners (and teachers) at the elementary level. Trapezium addresses the whole learner and supports students in their development. The following are built into our online math enrichment program:


Differentiated Instruction

With My Level Math students can participate in one lesson at up to 5 different levels. Students of many levels can access the same lesson with the same level of participation. Our My Level Math activities focus on Counting, Reasoning, Automaticity, Fluency and Test-taking.

Automaticity

Trapezium has developed incremental activities beginning in kindergarten that support full automaticity in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts by the end of 3rd grade.

"Technology-free" activities and lessons

Trapezium believes that children learn best when engaged with their teacher and other math learners. Our lessons provide highly engaging activities that don't require a computer.

Instruction to Mastery

Trapezium provides content with incremental scaffolding and repetition that builds mastery in the following areas:

  • Counting, Reasoning, Automaticity, Fluency and Test-taking


A Focus on Kindergarten and Early Learners

Trapezium Math has been very deliberate and thoughtful about engaging our youngest learners and has created content that recognizes the social, emotional, physical (fine motor skills) and academic needs of these learners. Our kindergarten math support creates a foundation for mastering math in elementary school.


Our Framework at a Glance

Trapezium uses C.R.A.F.T.™, a proprietary framework that incorporates 5 critical areas that play a role in the development of strong math foundations in children. These 5 components are:


Counting by different intervals forwards and backwards and counting by mixed numbers lays the foundation for mental math fluency with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. By the end of elementary schools, students should be able to orally count by any number, to any number, from any number both forward and backwards.


Reasoning is essential to being a strong math learner. Students will be able to use reasoning to identify to pull pertinent information, solve equations, and consider how answers make sense in the context of a problem in the real world.

 

Automaticity  Trapezium has developed incremental activities beginning in kindergarten that support full automaticity in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts by the end of 3rd grade.


Fluency We support students in developing a mental map of numbers so that they can understand, relate, and connect numbers. Additionally we support students in transferring what they know about numbers to time, money and measurement.


Tenacity Cultivating tenacity is essential to supporting a strong and confident math learner. Through different games and challenges we support students in developing the ability to approach hard math with a willingness to fail and keep trying. We want students to know they are capable of doing hard math!


About The Founder

Founder Angela McIver, PhD, long believed that elementary students were capable of doing far more challenging math than elementary programs were asking of them. Dr. McIver completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania where she wrote her doctoral dissertation, Understanding the Numerical Reasoning of Middle School Students.  Based on her experiences interviewing hundreds of students across the country from kindergarten to college, Dr. McIver concluded that few students were provided the rigor necessary to develop strong math foundations. She also found that when rigor was provided, it was neither engaging nor confidence-building for students. These conclusions formed the cornerstone of Trapezium Math. Trapezium Math challenges elementary students with activities that move away from the worksheet-driven classroom and ignites the desire to learn math.


Trapezium Math Team

Angela McIver, PhD

Founder/CEO

Katy Hellman

Director, School Partnerships 

Amy Scheidegger Ducos

Artistic Director

Steven Lebel

Manager, Online Math Clubs 

Katy Healey

Curriculum Specialist 

Millissent

Curriculum Specialist 

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