Math you build with your hands.
Math Labs and print-and-play games — designed in real classrooms by researchers and teachers.
What we make
Multi-week hands-on math projects
Students build, measure, design, and argue about math. Physical materials, teacher portal, slides, video walkthroughs — everything you need.
27 print-and-play math games
Quick to learn, fun to play, genuinely mathematical. Area, fractions, coordinates, operations, algebraic thinking.
Story Questions
Choose a world, spin the wheel, do the math! Works as a whole-class warmup or small-group activity.
Watch what happens when students can touch the math
"I was able to get a visual, and actually, like, understand it." — 8th grade student, Chicago
Students demonstrate Balance Lab and explain — in their own words — what it means to solve equations with physical objects.
Math Labs
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Design Game X
Students play oversized physical fraction games, then design and build their own.
The Next Big Game
The sequel to Design Game X. Students design more complex games involving fraction operations — adding, subtracting, and multiplying fractions and mixed numbers.
Finding P.I.P.E.R.
Students navigate the coordinate plane to track down P.I.P.E.R. — plotting, decoding, and triangulating to rescue a missing robot.
Journey to Titan
Students build motorized rescue vehicles, collect data, and use ratio, rate, and percent to plan a voyage to Saturn's moon.
Balance Lab
Build a physical balance from K'Nex™, place cups (variables) and cubes (constants), and solve equations with your hands — from one-step through variables on both sides.
Slope Lab
Build motorized racers, collect distance/time data, and discover slope — then write equations in y = mx + b form.
What people are saying
Teachers, students, and principals in their own words
"I told Jack this morning that he showed an 8th grade skill on his post test and he was beaming! The genuine joy on his face brought tears to my eyes. I'm so proud of his growth!"
"Jaxsyn has a conception that she is not good at math so she doesn't generally try to answer questions or work problems. I was bowled over as I watched her using a drawing strategy during the post test. That was more effort than I have seen from her all year."
"I got pictures of Anna Beth with an authentic smile for the first time all year. That is not something you can measure on an assessment, but it is remarkable."
"Liam loved every bit of this unit and he took his Lesson 4 puzzles home to work on over the summer … because he wanted to."
"We loved it."
"I really love this approach to teaching."
What students wrote after working with 10story materials
"My experience here was incredible. You are literally building the scale."
In a letter to future students, this learner describes the experience of physically constructing a balance and using it to understand equations — and urges others to try it.
Short, focused math mini-lessons covering a broad range of standards from grades 3–8. Area and arrays, fraction operations, coordinate graphing, algebraic reasoning — taught by veteran math educator Howie Templer.
Explore the video library →Who built this
10story Learning was developed by a learning scientist, a children's book author, and a veteran math educator. The collection draws on research in the cognitive and learning sciences — how hands-on activity grounds mathematical cognition, and how students construct knowledge by reasoning through problems together. Every lab is built in the design tradition: developed, tested, and refined in real classrooms.
