Tang Math Curriculum

Standards-aligned K-5 curriculum that builds deep conceptual understanding. Features engaging lessons, interactive tools, videos, spiral review, and quarterly assessments. Uses concrete, pictorial, and abstract models to differentiate instruction, build number sense, and develop fluency, automaticity, and strong problem-solving skills.

K-5

Transform your math classroom with our comprehensive full-year curriculum for K-5. This standards-aligned, digital-first program offers click-through lessons, interactive tools, videos, unlimited worksheets, and spiral reviews to build deep conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills.

Summer

Prevent summer slide with our completely ready-to-go summer program. This 4-week solution uses interactive lessons, games, and practice to close gaps & reinforce key concepts. Perfect for summer school or at-home use, help students return stronger, more confident, and ready to thrive.

Pre-K

Ignite a lifetime of learning with our new PK curriculum! Through our engaging activities, interactive lessons and nurturing guidance, little learners will develop essential number sense, basic numeracy, logical thinking and more - building the foundation that prepares them to thrive in Kindergarten and beyond.

Built on Standards & Experience

Greg Tang has spent over a decade helping teachers bring the Common Core Standards to life. That real-world experience shaped our curriculum, which connects big ideas across domains and develops key habits of mind. With seamless links between standards and lessons, teachers can deliver focused, effective instruction that builds deep understanding and strong problem-solving skills. By combining proven content with classroom-tested strategies, we make it easier to teach well-and help students succeed at every level. Teachers gain structure and clarity, and students benefit from lessons that are meaningful, connected, and thoughtfully sequenced.

Essential Math Content

Our curriculum is designed to make teaching easier and learning more effective. We focus on essential skills and time-tested strategies that build logically from year to year. Each lesson fits into a larger plan, helping students progress step by step with a clear purpose. The result is deeper understanding, stronger retention, and a coherent math journey from one grade to the next.

Equity Through Access

We believe every student deserves access to great teaching and tools that make math clear and doable. That means models and methods that meet students where they are-regardless of background or skill level. Our program supports personalized instruction and helps teachers guide each student toward growth, confidence, and a lasting understanding of math.

Aligned to State Standards

Tang Math aligns seamlessly with State and Common Core Standards for Mathematics. Teachers can instantly view all lessons tied to each grade-level standard and, through reverse links, identify which standards are addressed in any given lesson. This two-way alignment makes it easy to deliver focused, effective instruction-and gives teachers the confidence that every lesson is helping students meet key learning goals. Whether starting with a skill or a standard, our system ensures instruction is intentional, relevant, and easy to plan. It removes the guesswork, supports instructional coherence, and helps teachers use their time more efficiently and effectively.

Theoretical Foundations

Tang Math is built on the ideas of influential educators and researchers like Bruner, Piaget, Vygotsky, Dienes, Skemp, Dweck, and Polya. Their work on cognitive development, motivation, reasoning, and effective instruction informs our curriculum at every level. We combine these deep theoretical foundations with real-world teaching experience to create a program that truly works.

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Our CPA model helps students connect concrete understanding to abstract thinking. We begin with hands-on tools like five frames, Base 10 blocks, and tangrams, then move to visual models and abstract problems. We've extended this approach with CP and PA stages to support critical transitions and deepen learning. It's a progression that builds meaning-not just memorization.

Exploration with a Growth Mindset

We start with curiosity. Tang Math lessons are built around exploration and discovery, encouraging students to make sense of problems before procedures are introduced. This structure supports a growth mindset by giving all students a way to enter the problem and persist through challenges. We believe in every child's potential to grow-and we support that growth by designing lessons that promote curiosity, collaboration, and confidence. Students aren't just solving problems-they're developing perseverance, ownership, and a love for thinking deeply. When students are allowed to explore, they engage more fully, think more creatively, and build skills that last a lifetime.

Fluency with Purpose

We define fluency as the ability to solve problems accurately, efficiently, and flexibly-not just quickly. Automaticity comes from consistent, meaningful practice rooted in understanding. Drawing on the research of Baroody and Skemp, our CPA-based materials build number sense first, then reinforce it with targeted practice. Students don't just recall facts-they truly get them.

Support that Sticks

Even the best curriculum needs strong implementation. We support teachers with live PD, step-by-step guides, and an extensive library of on-demand videos. Greg Sr. also teaches live student lessons that model high-quality instruction. These sessions have reached over 2.5 million students-and the recordings continue to help teachers deliver powerful lessons every day.

A Bright Future

Professor Brent Davis - Distinguished Research Chair in Mathematics Education at the University of Calgary - carefully vetted the Tang Math curriculum with his team of researchers. His conclusion?

"Without qualification, Tang Math is the most thoughtfully developed and seamlessly integrated teaching-and-learning tool I have encountered in my 40-year career in mathematics education."