EMPIRES

Empires: A compelling story takes learning deeper. And preparing for goat uprisings is just plain fun. Trading goats and researching metallurgy, entwined with a youthful love story amidst the creation of civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia is not the formula one would expect to see when a middle school math teacher sets out to raise the dismal track record of U.S. students in international math tests. Why does it work? Because goats, or metallurgy, or wherever else a civilization story can take you, helps math make sense.