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2024 has been an exciting year, full of challenges, learning experiences, and very special moments with the entire educational community.
We’ve brought math to the streets, learned from talks by educational leaders, and stood by schools and families to achieve more meaningful math learning that fosters students’ deep understanding and reasoning skills.
As the year comes to a close, we present a collection of 12 moments that have strengthened our mission and motivated us to continue transforming education.
Thank you for being a part of it!
1. Math Challenges for World Book Day 2024
This year, we launched initiatives and resources to bring us closer to families, recognizing their key role in supporting their children’s math learning.
On April 23, World Book Day, cities across Catalonia were filled with math challenges, and many children had the chance to solve problems and puzzles.
We also introduced Enigmath, a collection of math challenge books for primary students, and The Triangles of Friendship, a manipulative storybook for preschoolers.
2. Enjoy Thinking in Barcelona, Madrid, São Paulo, and Mexico
We had the chance to participate in the Enjoy Thinking events, gatherings for school leaders focused on educational transformation, held in Madrid, Barcelona, São Paulo, and Mexico. These were fantastic sessions for reflection, sharing challenges, and listening to educational leaders such as Coral Regí, Luis José Rodríguez, Antoni Zabala, and Maripé Menéndez.
We’ll keep learning together about the shared educational challenges we face!
3. Andreas Schleicher: Schools as Reflections of the Future
On May 23rd, we had the privilege of hosting a very special meeting with Andreas Schleicher, coordinator of the PISA tests and Director of Education at the OECD. During this meeting, we heard firsthand about his vision of the PISA report results and the keys to improving education on a global scale.
Schleicher emphasized the importance of competency-based learning in the classroom. As he noted: “It’s not about students merely reproducing what they already know. Teachers must ask them the right questions so that students reason and can apply what they’ve learned at school in other contexts.”
You can find the event highlights and key ideas here.
4. ForMaths Tour 2024: A Major Training Event in Math Education
The ForMaths Tour 2024 was a math didactics training tour carried out during June and September. Throughout the tour, we visited over 80 venues across five countries (Spain, Italy, Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador), with over 10,000 teachers participating. Through more than 120 training sessions, we had the privilege of empowering teaching teams with tools and strategies to transform math learning in their classrooms.
These training sessions are part of the ongoing support we offer schools using our curricular proposal. A fun fact: in 2024, we shared 15,000 hours with teachers and school teams, offering hands-on guidance to maximize the curriculum’s impact and deepen math education.
5. Present at JAEM24 in Santander
The JAEM 2024 (Jornadas de Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de las Matemáticas) is the go-to event for math education in Spain. Held every two years, this congress brings together teachers, researchers, and sector experts to share ideas, best practices, and reflections on math learning.
This year, we didn’t want to miss it! We participated in two presentations, workshops, and had a large part of our didactic team listening and learning from outstanding educators. We will continue transferring university-level research into the classroom!
6. An Important Milestone: The Innovamat White Paper
This year, we took a big step forward by publishing the Innovamat White Paper, a document that synthesizes scientific literature on math didactics, the most recognized theoretical frameworks, and the most rigorous research.
The book is structured around the didactic principles guiding our proposal, such as guided discovery, manipulation and discussion, the use of spirally sequenced activities, and attention to diversity. It also includes practical examples of how these principles translate into teaching resources, guides, and classroom tools.
You can read the White Paper here. You can also explore our didactic principles through this link.
7. Math Education Training with the Entire Team!
At Innovamat, our approximately 340 team members gather quarterly for a company-wide meeting to share projects, align goals, highlight major achievements, and look to the future. This year, for the first time, we held these meetings in person—and it was a success!
Sometimes, we use these gatherings for team training on specific topics. In the image, you can see us sharing a session on myths and misunderstandings about math learning while collaboratively building the times tables for 17.
8. Math Learning at Upper Freehold
This year, the Upper Freehold Regional School District in Allentown, New Jersey, which began using our curricular proposal in 2023, opened its doors for us to share its story.
It was incredibly moving to hear from their teachers and learn firsthand how confidence, motivation, and a love for math have flourished in their classrooms.
9. NCTM, Peter Liljedahl, and Building Thinking Classrooms
This year, we took our vision to the largest stage in math didactics: the NCTM & NCSM conferences, held in Chicago with over 8,000 participants.
We also had the honor of presenting two sessions by Albert Vilalta, Laura Morera, and Judith Fàbrega.
Additionally, we connected with Peter Liljedahl, author of the revolutionary book Building Thinking Classrooms, which we had the privilege of translating into Spanish and writing the foreword for. This book, a major success in the U.S., presents 14 innovative practices to transform classrooms into active, collaborative spaces where students not only solve problems but also think critically and make connections.
10. Collaboration with Public Schools in Rio de Janeiro
During the year 2024, we collaborated with the Municipal Secretariat of Education of Rio de Janeiro, one of the largest cities in Latin America, to implement Innovamat in five municipal schools, transforming the learning experience of hundreds of students throughout the school year.
However, the challenge is significant and does not end here! For 2025, we have agreed to continue growing alongside the same Secretariat of Education to implement Innovamat in a total of 30 public schools in the municipality, creating learning opportunities for more “carioquinhas” (as students from Rio’s public school network are affectionately called).
11. Gimcamath: Math in the Streets!
One of the most memorable moments was the Gincamath, a math scavenger hunt held around the Monastery of Sant Cugat. Over 1,000 children and families participated in this event, solving math challenges that fostered creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration in a fun and family-friendly environment. The city was filled with math energy!
12. Looking Ahead to 2025
As we do every December, we closed the year with the entire Innovamat team. Looking ahead to 2025, we remain committed to learning and growing with you. We will continue working closely with schools and families to achieve math learning that is understood, thought about, and inspiring.
Thank you for trusting us and for making us part of your journey.
Onward to 2025!
