
How Incorporating Math into Physical Education Boosts Learning
Science says math and physical education work well together. Here’s how you can add math to your PE lesson plans to benefit your students’ learning.
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Science says math and physical education work well together. Here’s how you can add math to your PE lesson plans to benefit your students’ learning.

These students made incredible progress in learning multiplication by participating in 90 minutes of Math & Movement.

Kinesthetic learning resources helped these third graders learn mutliplication after facing setbacks due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students at Yu Ying Charter School greatly improved their multiplication by 6s skills during a 40 minute after-school session using movement.

Three classes participated in the Math & Movement program during their multiplication units while one class did not. See how their scores compare!

These 3rd grade students significantly improved their multiplication by 8s skills after just a one-hour-long movement-based lesson!

This math intervention helped Pre-K students master counting to 20 and one-to-one correspondence with movement-based learning.

Students’ self-efficacy and self-confidence toward multiplication significantly increased after participating in kinesthetic strategies.

This 2023 program studied the effectiveness of kinesthetic learning strategies on students’ multiplication fluency and attitudes toward math.

Download Case Study Davidson K-8 School Public Elementary School Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District Davidson, NC Kindergarten through Third Grade Classrooms School-Wide Study End-of-Year Measure of Academic
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