Carole’s Corner


About Carole The CMAT team thanks Carole Greenes, Ed.D., Professor Emerita, Mathematics Education at Arizona State University for sharing her books, activities, ideas, and opinions in Carole’s Corner. More About Carole		Adoption News Great news! MathLinks: Core Grades 6-8 (2nd ed) is on track for adoption in January 2026 by the CA Board of Education. What differentiates us from other adopted-recommended programs? Here is an example of how MathLinks is built around Big Ideas. Thanks to the coherence and connectedness of concepts, the core standards-based lessons for each grade can be completed in approximately 100 class hours. This leaves ample time for intervention, enrichment, assessments, tasks, and projects that we provide to meet the specific needs of each class. Contact us for Previews, Pilots, and Presentations.
Carole's Puzzle Games Puzzles that involve exponents are the theme of Carole’s recent book, May the Power Be With You! In these puzzles, sets of algebraic equations provide clues to the values of letters in given words. As with most of Carole’s books, multiple levels of difficulty are provided. Download it for free today.		MathLinks: Core Grades 6-8 (2nd ed) Every MathLinks unit begins with an opening problem. They often create a need to know and are revisited later in the unit after students have learned new concepts. But, this particular 7th grade opening problem can be completed in a fairly short amount of time. See if your students can determine the numbers of Lions and Tigers and Bears from the algebraic clues!
Carole’s Tasks and Projects In 1742 Christian Goldbach proposed that every number greater than 2 can be formed by adding two PRIME numbers, and every odd number greater than 5 can be formed by adding three PRIME numbers. This task makes exploration of these conjectures accessible to a wide range of learners! Give it a try. Want to get students out of their seats and working in pairs? Check out Carole’s measurement project: Shoes on Partners!		MathLinks: Essentials (Intervention for Grades 6-9) Are your students struggling with fraction concepts? Check out this Fraction Rummy Game from the MathLinks Essentials Fractions Module.
Carole’s Games Poly-gon Where? is a puzzle book that can also be a game. Challenge pairs of students to find as many polygons as possible on a game board in a given time limit, and then compute their score. The greater score wins the round.		Wanna learn more? Contact us here.

Welcome to Carole’s Corner!

CMAT is honored that Carole Greenes is joining our CMAT team as a distinguished contributor. I personally met Carole when she wrote and directed the 50^th anniversary musical celebration for NCSM. Her energy and spirit are contagious, and now Carole is part of the CMAT family.

We are so excited that Carole will be sharing some of her engaging puzzles, projects, tasks, and wisdom with all of us through Carole’s Corner. Every month, Carole will share her thoughts of the moment in Carole’s Corner. We also will post some of Carole’s activities, puzzles, tasks, and projects, with connections to MathLinks materials. Carole would like these selected materials (and solutions) to be free to you, so download, enjoy yourself, and use with your students!

Thank you, Carole,

Shelley Kriegler
President, Center for Mathematics and Teaching