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Learn More About PowerMyLearning
PowerMyLearning is a national nonprofit dedicated to improving math outcomes for elementary students. For more than 25 years, PowerMyLearning has partnered with schools and districts to strengthen teaching and learning, especially in communities serving multilingual learners and students who have been historically underserved.
Today, their work is focused on helping educators better understand how students think about mathematics. Through evidence-based programs, professional learning, and innovative tools like MathVoice™, PowerMyLearning supports teachers in moving beyond right-or-wrong answers to uncover students’ reasoning, misconceptions, and mathematical ideas.
What sets PowerMyLearning apart?
PowerMyLearning’s approach is grounded in both learning science and real classroom practice. What sets them apart is their focus on student mathematical discourse: how students explain, reason, and talk through math concepts. Most math tools show whether a student got the answer right. MathVoice helps teachers understand how students arrived there. After completing a play-based math activity with a partner or small group, students record a short explanation of their thinking. MathVoice captures and analyzes that student math talk so teachers can see how students are approaching a concept, where misconceptions may be emerging, and what support students may need next. MathVoice provides meaningful insights to support instruction, not prescribe it, so teachers remain the primary decision-makers.
How does PowerMyLEarning support educators and center learners?
Student-centered math learning starts with understanding how students think.
PowerMyLearning helps educators create learning experiences where students are not only solving problems but collaborating with peers using math language, explaining their reasoning, and building confidence as mathematical thinkers. In return, teachers get time-saving insights to strengthen their instruction and better meet the needs of every learner.
Story from the Field
Ms. Landry’s Classroom, Reynolds Elementary School
Something powerful is happening in a first-grade classroom at one of our Texas partners: students are asking for more math.
This is a first for Ms. Ashley Landry, a veteran teacher at Reynolds Elementary. Ms. Landry uses a highly structured math curriculum, but through PowerMyLearning’s professional learning support and MathVoice, she has found new ways to bring student thinking, confidence, and conversation into the center of her instruction.
Here’s how MathVoice works: after completing hands-on math activities with classmates, students record short videos explaining what they just learned. Instead of relying only on written work or quick checks for correctness, Ms. Landry can hear how students reasoned through the math. AI-powered insights help her identify misconceptions, understand who needs support, and see who is ready to move forward. This level of visibility has changed her practice by giving her a clearer window into each student’s thinking.
She shared that this impact is especially visible in students like Jazelle, who has come out of her shell through the opportunity to record herself and explain her math thinking. Now she introduces herself with the confidence of a TikTok star, ready to share what she knows. With each video, students build confidence using math language, share strategies, and see themselves as capable mathematicians.
Ms. Landry has noticed a difference in her classroom culture. Students are more engaged, willing to talk through their reasoning, and excited to participate. She shared that this is the first year her students can confidently count money, and that they now ask for more math in a way she had never seen before. Just as importantly, they are having fun.
This kind of shift happens when teachers have tools and support that strengthen their practice rather than prescribe it. PowerMyLearning works alongside educators to support implementation, deepen instruction, and help teachers use student thinking to drive learning.
In Ms. Landry’s classroom, MathVoice is helping math feel joyful, rigorous, and accessible. Students are not just completing activities. They are explaining, reasoning, collaborating, and discovering that their ideas matter.
PowerMyLearning's impact extends beyond Ms. Landry's classroom. MathVoice is backed by a robust evidence base, with partner schools demonstrating gains of more than 10 percentage points in math achievement. For students like Jazelle, growth begins when they have the confidence, language, and support to share their mathematical thinking.