Investigations Center for Curriculum and Professional Development
A project that developed and now supports Investigations, a focused coherent, and rigorous K-5 mathematics curriculum that places making sense of mathematics at the heart of the work, for students and for teachers.
Environmental Innovation Challenges
Innovate to Mitigate challenged 8th–12th grade students to submit ideas that mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.
May’s Journey
Researchers studied the development of implicit computer skills through a 3D puzzle-based game called May’s Journey.
Adult Numeracy Center
The Adult Numeracy Center at TERC helps adults and young adults understand how math is present and relevant in everyday life, and how they can use this knowledge to improve their lives and communities.
Math in the Making
The Math in the Making project asks the question: Can we leverage participation and success in making to help someone who thinks they aren’t very good at math come to see themselves as mathematically competent?
ESSIL: Extracting Salient Scenarios from Interaction Logs
Extracting Salient Scenarios from Interaction Logs helped students understand the principles of complex systems by developing a new type of education technology to support their learning and participation in the multi-person immersive simulation.
Framing Research on Activities as Mathematical Experiences (FRAME)
FRAME investigated strategies to enhance the mathematics in museum-based making and tinkering activities and laid the foundation for a full research study on broadening family participation in mathematics through making.
Designing Biomimetic Robots
Designing Biomimetic Robots created and studied an interdisciplinary learning environment for middle school students, by having students study the natural world and use what they learned to design their own robots.
Data Clubs for Middle School Youth
Developed data science materials and activities for after-school and summer experiences.