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Math Power!

The goal of Math Power! The Power of Math in Everyday Life is to inspire kids, particularly those in developing countries — and both in- and out-of-school — to joyfully engage with math via low-cost tech and non-tech interventions.

Math Power! is intended as a fun and provocative way to showcase global efforts, celebrate the efforts of local math champions and organizations, and to catalyze new activities to reach learners wherever they are. We want to help share the love of math as something which should be entertaining and meaningful regardless of the circumstances.

2025 Math Power! Prize Announced!

Our 2025 prize call is focused on Manipulatives; Presenting learners with powerful, accurate models and representations of abstract mathematical concepts.

We are seeking innovative and scalable initiatives that provide learners with access to powerful, accurate models and manipulatives of key mathematical concepts and support teachers to use these tools effectively in the classroom.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis through Friday, May 30th, 2025.

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Initiatives

Want to join us in any/all of the activities, please feel free to e-mail us [email protected]. 

Want to join us in any/all of the activities, please feel free to e-mail us [email protected]. 

We have featured many exciting math organizations during our prior Symposia (e.g., 2024 Symposium) and have “math” tracks in our three 2025 Symposia: STEMtastic Adventures! Africa (Nairobi); STEMtastic Adventures! with Young Pacific Leaders (Fiji); and the Marvelous Education Alliance (Arlington, VA and D.C.). See the respective event pages for more details.

Using interactive voice response and basic mobile phones to disseminate math games to learners in households in low-resource settings.  See the page for more information, including a description of our pilot activity in Rwanda.

We have developed a series of branching narrative stories for teachers to introduce to learners around basic mathematical concepts described in the Global Proficiency Framework for Mathematics.

A prior collaboration with Education Above All. (See below for more information.)

We are advancing non-digital educational game programs, including those that promote mathical thinking. We are currently working on a pilot with Kigali Public Library (Rwanda) to create an educational games program which will include engaging youth to train other youth and kids in math-themed and other educational games. Contact us for more information.

Math Games Catalog

The Math Games catalog is a solution meant to help learners practice math fluency, building confidence, and gaining important problem-solving skills by applying math in different contexts. The catalog was a joint creation of Education Above All as part of their Internet Free Education Resource Bank (IFERB) project-based learning resources, the mEducation Alliance’s Math Power! initiative and supported by the Julia Robinson Math Festival. The games are designed for 4 levels of learners from the ages of 4 – 14 years based on a competency framework. Each of the games is fun, requires a low amount of resources, and is implementable in or out of school contexts.

The resources available include:

  • A briefing note with the background and design choices
  • A competency framework based on Khan Academy’s Common Core learning principles
  • Detailed math games for each level that are ready to play
  • A backend resource catalog that is a curated and categorized repository of existing open-source math resources

EAA, JRMF, and the mEducation Alliance would appreciate feedback on this tool, so email [email protected]. with any suggestions or tools beyond what is published.

Resources

2023 FLN CoP Landscape Report

Co-sponsor the 2025 Math Power! Prize

The Math Power! Prize, part of our suite of Math Power! activities, is designed to draw attention to the importance of mathematics and numeracy skills and to publicly recognize the amazing work of exceptional organizations working in their communities and globally to promote the joy of math.

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Math Power! Explorer Interactive Voice Response Games

 

The mEducation Alliance’s Math Power! Explorer (MPE) pilot combines mobile phones and Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) with household and parental engagement to support easy delivery of math games and activities to support primary-aged grade students in Rwanda. 

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Jax Chaudhry

Jax Chaudhry leads Project Invent, a national nonprofit that empowers youth with future ready mindsets for individual success and global impact, through invention. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, Jax loves working with students, families and partners to ensure every student can attain success as they define it. For more than 10 years, she has worked with elementary schools, high schools, education nonprofits and led regional teams and operations to ensure student success.

Michael Leventhal

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning scienceMichael Leventhal is co-founder of RobotsMali, a pedagogical and AI4D laboratory and STEM education center in Bamako, Mali. RobotsMali has trained thousands of students from elementary school to high school in computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, coached national robotics teams that have won 32 medals in international competitions, and developed technologies using AI and robotics for the social and economic development of Mali. Before becoming an educator in Mali, Michael worked as a technologist in Silicon Valley.s, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.

Enouce Ndeche

Enouce Ndeche is the founder and Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja ,VAP a community scheme based in Nairobi Kenya that uses the power and the popularity of the game of soccer/football as a catalyst for social, educational and economic empowerment.Enouce holds a degree in sociology from Egerton university and he is also the 2020 individual award recipient “Diversity and Inclusion Eminent Leader Award Enouce is also a certified Sports Philanthropy and Executive, George Washington University and is a 2023 Gratitude Network fellow.

Kenneth Y T Lim

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.