Real-Life Math Lessons Guaranteed To Make
Your Math Class More Engaging

You haven't seen lessons like these anywhere else. We offer the most engaging real-life lessons that will have your students engaged in math like never before. They will enjoy the lesson, have fun while doing the activity, come away with math knowledge and practice, and actually understand the purpose of math. Lessons are designed for grades 6-8, but many teachers have successfully utilized them outside those grades.

We are not going to stop adding new lessons until we have a real-life lesson or rich task for every Common Core Standard in Grades 6, 7, and 8. We have already completed this process with 7th grade and are in the middle of completing it with 6th and 8th grade. As new lessons become available members will be notified and then they will be able to log in and download them at no additional charge.

Our 1 on 1 messaging is not about receiving instruction or being told what to do. Sometimes all you need is to bounce an idea off another educated and experienced Math Teacher. 1 on 1 messaging allows me to show you that I am personally here for you. I will respond to all messages on the site twice a day which means you will get a response within 24 hours. It can be as simple as "Have you ever differentiated your Math Mystery Crime Case lesson?" or as complex as "I have these students in a class who are... ...how would you deal with that?" Want to know more about me?

Love them or hate them, the Common Core Standards are in full effect across the country. All of our real-life lessons and rich tasks are aligned with Common Core Standards which are noted on each lesson's page. We are continuing to release a new lesson every month until we have lessons for every Common Core Standard in 6-8th grade. With over 60 lessons that cover more than 55 standards, we are well on our way.

Hi. My name is Matt Kitchen, M.Ed. and I started this website 8 years ago. When I started teaching almost 10 years ago I had a lot of tear filled moments wondering if this was the right profession for me while I struggled to teach at a high poverty, urban school. I hit my fight or flight moment and I decided to fight and get better. Over the past 10 years I have read books, researched pedagogy, attended conferences, spoken at conferences, written lessons, trained teachers, and put my heart and soul into becoming the best math teacher I could be. I have seen and experienced the worse, so I was determined to build and put into place the strategies and skills required to be an outstanding teacher. It has paid off as I have become a very accomplished teacher in my area where my students typically double the state test passage rate of urban school students. I have been recognized as having one of the highest growth rates for my students in the state of Ohio. Do I think I am the best? No. But every year I continue to try and become so, which has allowed me to amass a great deal of knowledge and resources that I know so many teachers could use. Join today and partner with me to continue our pursuit of A Perfect Math Classroom.