The Build Math Minds Podcast
Summary: The Build Math Minds podcast is for my fellow Recovering Traditionalists out there. If you don’t know whether or not you are a Recovering Traditionalist, here’s how I define us. We are math educators who used to teach math the traditional way. Flip lesson by lesson in the textbook, directly teaching step-by-step how to solve math problems. But now, we are working to change that to a style of teaching math that is fun and meets our students where they are at, not just teaching what comes next in the textbook. We want to encourage our students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and lovers of mathematics..we are wanting to build our students math minds and not just create calculators. If that is you, then this podcast is for you.
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- Artist: Christina Tondevold
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Podcasts:
Episode 36 - Encourage Student Perseverance and Authority
Episode 35 - Features of Appropriate Math Tasks
Episode - 34 Effectively Using Games to Build Mathematical Thinking & Reasoning
Episode 33 - Building confidence in your students with Melissa Barone
Episode 32 - You have permission with Jess Hempel & Christine Farrell
Episode 31 - Using your textbook as a guide with Christy Crees
Episode 30 - Inspiration & Information from Jessica Boyer
Episode 29 - Are you Indispensable?
Episode 28 - Teaching Mathematics through Problem Solving
Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 27. Today we are looking at Using Kids’ Intuitive Mathematical Reasoning If you follow my blog, The Recovering Traditionalist, then you know that I’m doing a series of videos to kick off the school year all about how and why to teach math without a textbook. One of the biggest influences on my belief about teaching math without a textbook is the research of Cognitively Guided Instruction.
Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 26. Today we are looking at Adding It Up. It’s the start of the school year here in the U.S and for many educators that means a new math textbook. As I was reading back through the book Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics for my recent vlog post I was reminded why I really don’t like textbooks. I believe they give everyone, the principal, the teacher, the parents, and so on a false sense of comfort.
Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 25, where we are going to get inspiration and information from Carri Naumann-Monti, an Educational Therapist who works with students who have language-based learning differences. Go to the show notes to get all the links: buildmathminds.com/25
Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 24. Today we are discussing Exceptionally Bright Children. Ok, so I’m just going to say this upfront that this episode may go a bit longer than my normal book insight episodes and I’m going to try not to cry while doing this. I’m going to tell a personal story before I get into the book I want to talk about because I bet you probably have a child like my son in your classroom.
Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 23. Today we are looking at creating a Bottoms Up Hundred Chart. Today’s insight comes from the article Bottoms Up Hundred Chart? by Jennifer Bay-Williams and Graham Fletcher. As you start to prepare for school to start back up, a common thing in elementary classrooms is the Hundred Chart. There are things I don’t like about using a hundred chart, but one thing they are great for is investigating patterns.
Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 22. Today we get insight into how Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic. Today’s insight comes from the book Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget’s Theory (second edition) by Constance Kamii. I get asked a lot how to help kids with subtraction and my answer is consistently, work more on addition. This may seem harsh that I don’t think we should be teaching kids strategies to solve subtraction,
