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20/09/2025|8 min read

Aresta. The Innovamat Newsletter

Where the Faces of Mathematics Education Meet

Hello! 👋

We welcome you to the Innovamat newsletter: Aresta, a monthly communication where the faces of mathematics education come together.

Each month, we will step into a math classroom, bring you voices from the education world, compile the latest news from Innovamat, and provide you with downloadable resources and recommendations to take home.

We hope you enjoy reading Aresta as much as we enjoy preparing it! 🩵

Stepping into the Classroom

We build the times table of 2 meaningfully

The problem

1×2=2, 2×2=4, 3×2=6… You probably even have the tune memorized, right?

Memorizing the times tables is not the same as learning them! It is very important to build conceptual understanding and develop fluency.

That’s why it’s crucial to build the tables from concrete contexts, patterns, and meaningful strategies.

Join us in a real session of a 3rd-grade classroom and witness the construction of the times table of 2.

Step into the classroom!

The Class of my Life

A conversation about math education in early childhood

"To be a good teacher, you must deeply trust the abilities of children," Mequè Edo

Don’t miss it!

The Tangram News

News, reflections, and key dates!

👉 What comes before the first answer? Albert Vilalta explains how anticipation sharpens our teaching perspective.

👉 Join us at the NCTM Congress 2025 in Atlanta. Come discover our workshops and training in mathematics education!

👉 Isaac Sayol explains the fluency zone from Atlas Math, a brand new feature to practice times tables.

👉 This month we celebrate World Teachers' Day. You are the piece that ignites curiosity in every classroom.

👉 Playing is not a break from math. Judith Fabrega shares why it’s the most natural way for preschoolers to learn.

👉 And you, are you still learning? Laura Morera shares 4 key insights on the importance of professional development.

The Library of Eratosthenes

Cultural recommendations for everyone

You’ve surely heard of the Library of Alexandria, but you might not know who directed it for years: Eratosthenes, a Greek astronomer, geographer, mathematician, and poet who, over two thousand years ago, managed to calculate the circumference of the Earth with surprising accuracy.

Eratosthenes, what do we find today in your library?

📃 Article

Ball, D. L. (1993). With an Eye on the Mathematical Horizon: Dilemmas of Teaching Elementary School Mathematics. Elementary School

This historical article reminds us of the importance of teacher training and having deep knowledge, not only of the subject but also of how to teach it.

📚 BOOK

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Apostolos Doxiadis, 2002)

A novel that blends intrigue and mathematics through the life of a mathematician obsessed with one of the great enigmas of number theory.

🎬 MOVIE

Louise Violet (Eric Besnard, 2024)

A teacher opens the first school in a French village in 1889, demonstrating that education

🎲 GAME

Prime Climb (Dan Finkel, 2014)

A board game of numbers and strategy by our beloved Dan Finkel, to learn and play with prime numbers and basic operations. It is widely used in schools and families around the world.

Explore the entire Eratosthenes Library

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