Help Students Master Math With Infobase

We rely on technologies of all sorts every day, whether it’s turning on a light switch, taking life-saving medicine, or making phone calls on computers small enough to fit in our pockets. In fact, we rely on them so regularly, we often take them for granted—and they only seem to get better as time goes on. Not to mention technologies that help us improve our understanding of our world and the universe it inhabits, from the simplest school microscope to the James Webb Space Telescope.

Yet, any scientist or inventor will tell you that no new technologies would exist without mathematics. Space travel would be impossible without calculus, and math is a key part of any architecture or construction projects. Math is a key part of medicine, too, as being able to calculate and measure out the correct dosage of a drug can make the difference between life and death. Being able to make the right calculations, measurements, and estimates makes technology possible.

This Math 2.0 Day, take the time to check out some of the mathematics resources you can find in Infobase products to help students become comfortable and confident using math in their daily lives and better prepared to tackle both the rigors of college and their future careers—including STEM careers.

The World Almanac® for Kids and The World Almanac® for Kids Elementary

The World Almanac for Kids and The World Almanac for Kids Elementary cover a wealth of math topics for middle school and elementary students. In The World Almanac for Kids Elementary, students can learn about and practice their skills with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, geometry, measurement, place value, fractions, and time and money. The World Almanac for Kids covers more challenging topics perfect for intermediate students, such as expressions and equations, geometry, ratios and proportions, statistics and probability, and the four operations, including number systems; students will also find both book-length and short bullet biographies on scientists, inventors, and mathematicians, including Benjamin Banneker, Niels Bohr, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Katharine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, and other trailblazers.

Both of these award-winning, complementary products feature exclusive, age-appropriate content for students, including articles, videos, Fun Facts, and games and puzzles designed to help them practice core math skills. Plus, educators can find a wealth of teacher resources such as worksheets, classroom management forms, science diagrams, and projects that can help with math instruction.

Math worksheets from The World Almanac® for Kids

Here are just some of the mathematics worksheets you’ll find in The World Almanac for Kids.

Learn360

Learn360, the ultimate streaming multimedia resource for K–12 schools and districts, features thousands of multimedia resources on mathematics, including videos, audio files, encyclopedia articles, activities, and interactives. Popular video series on math include Common Core Math 4 Kids, Real World Math, and Makematic’s Crayola: Moved by Math, and users can find more than 140 printable handouts featuring step-by-step math problems with clear instructions and analyses.

Here is just some of the math-related content you can find on Learn360:

Neighborhood Market Day/Rosie and Javi’s Slime Store and The Ice Pop Truck/Rosie’s Dollar Dilemma (Rosie’s Rules series, 2023): Follow the adventures of Rosie Fuentes, an inquisitive five-year-old Mexican-American girl just beginning to learn about the baffling and thrilling world beyond her family walls. In Neighborhood Market Day/Rosie and Javi’s Slime Store, Rosie searches for something to sell, but nothing seems quite right. Also, Rosie and Javi open a slime store, but realize they don’t have enough slime, so they have to make more. In The Ice Pop Truck/Rosie’s Dollar Dilemma, Rosie wants to try the new ice pop from the Ice Pop Truck, but she needs to find an extra dollar to buy it.
Let’s Talk About Money (Doggyland series, 2023, Item #287630): Bow Wizzle (played by Snoop Dogg) is here to teach the puppies all about money through singing, dancing, and rap! Kids can sing along and learn the difference between pennies, dimes, nickels, quarters and dollars in this fun, math-and-counting-based kids’ music video!
Why Is Budgeting Important? (Financial Literacy series, 2022, Item #283085): Jamal goes shopping and wants to spend some money. He explores the idea of budgeting—what is budgeting? Why is it important?
Cubes (High Five Facts, Season 2 series, 2022, Item #283138): High Five Facts is a series of short, animated videos that showcase five interesting facts, covering a wide range of topics from space to animals to shapes—perfect for introductions to new topics, quiz time, brain breaks or as an additional visual resource at home or in the classroom. This video explores five fun facts about cubes.
Episode 1: One (Polkaroo Counts series, 2021, Item #285656): Oh no, the number one is missing from the Number Wall! Polkaroo heads out into the real world while Hudson hangs out at the Polkaroo Counting Lab, both of them counting and finding different iterations of the number 1.
Counting with Earl series (2021, Item #282997): This animated series from Baby Einstein teaches numbers and quantities. The content is based on “The Einstein Way,” a curiosity-driven learning philosophy, from industry experts, inspired by Montessori and STEAM.
Patch’s Number Forest series (2021, Item #283007): This animated series from Baby Einstein introduces numbers 1–9.

Interactive Lessons

Learn360 also features mathematics interactives from Learnetic with clear learning objectives; organized sections consisting of animations, video clips, slideshows, images, and diagrams to explain key concepts; activities and quizzes to support applied learning, allow students to test themselves, and improve critical thinking; and Lesson Reports at the end to assess students’ work.

Topic Centers

Learn360’s Topic Centers bring together in one place a diverse range of multimedia assets—including videos, interactives, audio, and printables—on some of the most popular topics in the curriculum, including a wide variety of math topics. With Topic Centers, teachers can save time looking for appropriate materials and create dynamic lessons that will captivate their students on subjects such as:

Addition
Counting and Place Value
Decimals
Division
Fractions
Multiplication
Shapes
Subtraction
And more.

Classroom Video On Demand

Classroom Video On Demand features a wealth of middle- and high school-level material appropriate for basic through AP courses on mathematics, including:

Geometry, a 20-part series from Tercera/Hurix Digital that explores geometry with a focus on the branch of trigonometry and the relationship between the angles and the ratios of the sides of the right-angled triangles. Engaging videos provide instruction on solving problems related to ratios, angles, and shapes.
Hundreds of titles from integral CALC on calculus and geometry
Accounting Fundamentals, an exclusive four-part series that provides an overview of accounting practices and concepts
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics, a series from Annenberg Learner that helps demystify math
Algebra Applications and Geometry Applications, two 10-part series from Media4Math that present an impressive array of real-world applications of algebra and geometry, covering the complete scope and sequence of both curricula
Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s Mysterious World of Math, a three-part series from DCD Rights Limited where Dr. Hannah Fry journeys through the evolution of math from its philosophical origins to its status as a universal language and the foundation for all of science, introducing the great thinkers whose breakthroughs have shaped the language of math and, with it, our understanding of the world.

The Mailbox® Plus

Looking for math printables for prekindergarten through grade 6? The Mailbox Plus is packed with 54,000+ fun and engaging ideas, worksheets, games, learning centers, and more that help inspire imaginations while teaching essential skills—including more than 11,000 activities specifically for math. All of the activities are teacher-created, teacher-tested, and educationally sound.

Science Online

The award-winning Science Online database offers a comprehensive overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines, including mathematics—the “M” in STEM. Its Mathematics Topic Center is a virtual study guide that features a series of editor-selected overview articles on topics including algebra, applied mathematics, calculus, geometry, and probability and statistics along with suggested research topics, videos and animations, key tables and data, and a comprehensive mathematics timeline. Students will also find a Featured People section with a list of mathematicians with links to biographical articles from Infobase’s renowned proprietary reference titles—a quick way to learn more about the people behind the math.

Subscribers, log into Infobase’s databases, Learn360, and Classroom Video On Demand today to use this content when planning your fall classes.

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Help Students Master Math with Infobase