Joyful, Confidence-Building Math
Trapezium Math works with schools, districts and families to make math engaging and exciting for young math learners.
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Trapezium partners with schools and districts to provide a variety of turn-key programming options that help to meet the unique needs of each district, school and student. Programming includes: intervention, 10-minute math, after school math club and kindergarten core curriculum.
Trapezium partners with parents and families to support joyful, at-home math learning. We offer online math clubs as well as a variety of printables, games and activities that families can do at home.
About The Founder
Founder Angela McIver, PhD, long believed that elementary students were capable of doing far more challenging math than elementary programs were asking of them. Dr. McIver completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania where she wrote her doctoral dissertation, Understanding the Numerical Reasoning of Middle School Students. Based on her experiences interviewing hundreds of students across the country from kindergarten to college, Dr. McIver concluded that few students were provided the rigor necessary to develop strong math foundations. She also found that when rigor was provided, it was neither engaging nor confidence-building for students. These conclusions formed the cornerstone of Trapezium Math. Trapezium Math challenges elementary students with activities that move away from the worksheet-driven classroom and ignites the desire to learn math.
Trapezium Math Team
Angela McIver, PhD
Founder/CEO
Katy Hellman
Director, School Partnerships
Amy Scheidegger Ducos
Artistic Director
Steven Lebel
Manager, Online Math Clubs
Katy Healey
Curriculum Specialist
Millissent
Curriculum Specialist
Trapezium in the News!
List of Services
- This Is It TV
Thank you so much Angela McIver from Trapezium Math for joining Cheldin Barlatt Rumer on This Is It TV.
- Atlanta CW
Some local elementary school students celebrated Pi Day on March 14, 2022 virtually with other students across the nation. They’re part of a national math club called Trapezium.
- Courier News
Not sure how to help your kid with math homework? A Philly-based club could help.
It's like that dream where you're in math class in your underwear, and the whole class starts laughing.
- South Florida
Highlighting Trapezium Clubs kids in South Florida.
- ChalkBeat
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Parents, here’s how you can help your kids in math — without worksheets.
As schools scramble to hatch recovery plans, experts say parents can also help children strengthen their math foundations — without worksheets, flash cards, or blind Google searches.
- GMA One Year Later
Good Morning America Looks Back at Small Businesses They Highlighted in 2020
Good Morning America revisits companies they highlighted in June 2020. Angela talks about the online pivot that is making math so fun to learn over zoom and making Trapezium scalable like never before!
- GMA Live!
‘GMA’ surprises Trapezium Math founder Angela McIver
SoFi supports former Philadelphia teacher, who created the program to build confident math learners, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Story Exchange
Trapezium on THE STORY EXCHANGE
Angela McIver launched Trapezium Math Club to help boost kids’ math skills. In the U.S., children’s math scores lag far behind their international peers.
- WHYY
Trapezium featured on WHYY
What’s the best way to teach math?
- Math Club Graduates
Trapezium Math Club Graduates are Advanced in Math
In 2018, The Penn Alexander School graduated 30 eighth grade students who were admitted to Central High School - the city's premier magnet high school.
- Education on Fire
Angela McIver opens up about her own education.
Angela McIver joins Mark Taylor on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.