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Six Indianapolis elementary students sweep top spots of regional math competition
More than 100 elementary students competed at EP’s third annual Regional Math Competition at the Indiana State Museum. Six students from three Indianapolis schools claimed every top individual spot.
READ ARTICLE →Bridging the math opportunity gap: Exponentia Prime Academy’s summer camp empowers Black and Brown students
WRTV spotlights EP’s summer math camp where rigorous STEM instruction is paired with lessons about minority STEM pioneers — building confidence and closing the opportunity gap.
READ ARTICLE →Free math games make problem-solving fun for Indy students
Mirror Indy covers EP’s free monthly Math Circles — open to all K–8 students across Indianapolis — combining strategy games, competition prep, and a welcoming community.
READ ARTICLE →Community Link: Exponentia Prime
WISH-TV features EP founder Dr. Patrick Jones, who built Exponentia Prime after watching Black students feel isolated in competitive math spaces — and decided to change it.
READ ARTICLE →FROM THE BLOG
Thought leadership from the Knowledge Reigns Education Group on Medium.
The Teacher Is the Algorithm
Leadership Jones argues the single strongest predictor of a student’s entry into elite math is a trusted teacher who personally recruits them — calling for educators to become ‘Educator Ambassadors’ who actively guide underserved students into advanced mathematics pathways.
READ ARTICLE →Build the Thinking Class in Public
This provocative piece exposes how America’s unequal system quietly sorts children into a ‘thinking class’ and a ‘service class’ — and demands that rigorous intellectual challenge be brought into public schools for every student.
READ ARTICLE →When AI Takes Over the Work, What Will Your Child Be Left to Do?
As AI automates routine tasks, Dr. Jones argues the most urgent mission is cultivating the creativity, critical thinking, and irreplaceable human character that machines can never replicate.
READ ARTICLE →Every Elementary School Needs a Math Club
Math clubs are not an extracurricular luxury but a necessity — building the problem-solving foundations every aspiring STEM student needs long before they touch a robot or write a line of code.
READ ARTICLE →This Former Math Teacher Is Helping Students Become Big-Time Problem Solvers
A spotlight on the Exponentia Prime Regional Math Competition — gathering elementary students for a high-energy mathematics challenge designed to build confidence and redefine access to advanced math.
READ ARTICLE →The K-Shaped Math Crisis: Why Some Students Are Thriving While Others Are Left Behind
America’s deepening math gap is a ‘K-shaped’ crisis — high performers soar while struggling students sink — driven by affluent families’ access to private enrichment programs that most families cannot afford.
READ ARTICLE →High-Quality Math Education: A Catalyst for Progress
Mathematics education is not just academic — it’s a social and economic imperative that builds financial literacy, sharpens critical thinking, and positions communities to tackle their most pressing challenges.
READ ARTICLE →Building a Systematic Culture of Achievement
Schools must first establish a culture grounded in mastery of foundational skills. High expectations and direct instruction aren’t the enemy of creativity — they’re the precondition that makes genuine innovation possible.
READ ARTICLE →Breaking Barriers: The Bold Move to Diversify Advanced Education
Confronting stark racial disparities in advanced academic programs, this piece calls on districts nationwide to make deliberate, bold moves toward equitable access in honors and advanced coursework.
READ ARTICLE →The Joyful Math Journey with Parents as Partners
Schools must stop treating parents as passive observers and start equipping them with tools to actively support math learning — turning families into the most powerful force in a child’s academic growth.
READ ARTICLE →What Is Math Proficiency?
A fresh three-part definition: resilience to persist through hard problems, deep understanding of mathematical tools, and accuracy in applying them — a clarifying framework for anyone asking what it truly means to be good at math.
READ ARTICLE →Math Teachers Need to Put Kumon Out of Business
Public school math educators must own the mission of building fluency so thoroughly that families no longer need to pay for outside tutoring. Once the foundation is solid, teachers can guide students toward creative problem solving.
READ ARTICLE →Lessons from the Competition: Empowering Urban Youth Through Mathematics
Reflecting on EP’s inaugural Regional Math Competition — 42 elementary students, a rallying community, and three powerful takeaways about mobilization, intergenerational involvement, and parental commitment to academic excellence.
READ ARTICLE →Fostering Joy in Mathematics: Jumpstarting Instruction for Lasting Impact
Joy — sparked through puzzles, games, and challenge — must drive math instruction. A practical framework: spend the first 5–10 minutes igniting that joy, then transition to the skill-building and mastery work that follows.
READ ARTICLE →Teach Advanced Mathematics to Black Kindergarteners
Only 4% of Black kindergarteners demonstrate advanced math skills vs. 13% of white peers. This is an urgent call to introduce advanced mathematics to Black children from the very start of school — before the gap calcifies.
READ ARTICLE →MEDIA INQUIRIES
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