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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.
Latest episodes of the podcast The Build Math Minds Podcast
- Episode 204 -Timed Math Activities…Good or Bad?
- Episode 203 - Number Sense with Christina Tondevold and Mona Iehl
- Episode 202 - Going Beyond the Task When Building Thinking Classrooms with the Special Guests in Our Book Study
- Episode 201 - Our Summer Book Study - Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom
- Episode 200 - The Three Essential Math Experiences: Number Routines, Word Problems, and Games
- Episode 199 - The Many Ways to Show Numbers with Fingers
- Episode 198 - Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel
- Episode 197 - Upleveling Missing Part Games
- Episode 196 - Repackaging Style Word Problems: Transforming Missing Part Word Problems
- Episode 195 - Upleveling Missing Part Activities to Build Deeper Mathematical Thinking
- Episode 194 - The Truth About Mental Math - It's Not Just In Your Head
- Episode 193 - Beyond the Template - Making the Lesh Translation Model Meaningful
- Episode 192 - A Math Task All Teachers Should be Doing
- Episode 191 - Math Teaching Strategies: Highlights from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit Live Sessions
- Episode 189 - Making Math Irresistible: 4 Expert Strategies for Student Engagement in Elementary Math
- Episode 188 - The Science of Making Math Stick: Using Brain Research to Combat the NAEP Score Crisis
- Episode 187 - Problem Solving Success: 3 Experts’ Ideas from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit
- Episode 186 - Live Elementary Math PD Sessions You Won't Want to Miss: 2025 Virtual Math Summit Preview
- Episode 185 - Tasks for Building Thinking Classrooms - Virtual Math Summit 2025 preview
- Episode 184 - Don’t Discount the Use of Games in Your Classroom
- Episode 183 - The Count - Uncovering Mathematical Structure in Elementary Classrooms
- Episode 182 - Visual Patterns: The Secret Weapon for Teaching The Math Practices
- Episode 181 - Exploring Patterns Through Number Routines
- Episode 180 - Leaping Numbers: a great math activity for exploring patterns
- Episode 179 - A Math Hack That Isn’t a Hack
- Episode 178 - Students who struggle with Less Than problems
- Episode 177 - Math Misconceptions
- Episode 176 - Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms
- Episode 175 - Always Building Relationships - Rounding Numbers Series
- Episode 174 - Helping Students Understand Magnitude of Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series
- Episode 173 - Using Number Lines to Round Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series
- Episode 172 - Is Emotional Teaching a Thing???
- Episode 171 - Summer Book Study for Elementary Math Educators
- Episode 170 - The Importance of Play
- Episode 169 - Math Fluency Through Flexibility
- Episode 168 - Use Math Manipulatives - No Matter The Age
- Episode 167 - Mental Math does NOT mean doing it in your head
- Episode 166 - A Child’s Progression When Grouping to Count Items
- Episode 165 - Geometry in PreK-2 is more than just knowing names of shapes
- Episode 164 - The Power of Using Inverse Operations to Subtract & Divide
- Episode 163 - Helping Your Students to Be a Successful Student
- Episode 162 - Approximation, Precision, & Accuracy in Measurement
- Episode 161 - A candy bar is better than a pie…when it comes to fractions
- Episode 160 - Tips for Getting Kids to Talk in Math Class
- Episode 159 - The Number Strings Queens
- Episode 158 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Preventing Teacher Burnout
- Episode 157 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Challenges and Benefits of Building Kids' Thinking
- Episode 156 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Things to Think About When Doing Number Routines
- Episode 155 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Teaching Math with Newcomers in Mind
- Episode 154 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Helping Students Understand Multiplication
- Episode 153: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Tips for Creating Student-Centered Classrooms
- Episode 152 - Why don't you talk about Time & Money?
- Episode 151 - What Do Students Need to Know About Division?
- Episode 150 - A Quick Math Story Problem Activity
- Episode 149 - Things to Say Instead of IDK
- Episode 148 - Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?
- Episode 147 - Practice Makes Permanent
- Episode 146 - Standard Algorithms Compared to Computational Strategies
- Episode 145 - Math Textbooks Have the Teaching of Fluency All Wrong
- Episode 144 - What is Computational Fluency?
- Episode 143 - Summer Reading List for Elementary Math Teachers 2022
- Episode 142 - Nothing Lasts Forever
- Episode 141 - Get The Most Out of Math Games
- Episode 140 - Alternatives to Math Tests
- Episode 139 - Should We Stop Giving Tests in Math?
- Episode 138 - More Than a Test
- Episode 137 - Math in Children's Literature
- Episode 136 - Problem Solving In Math
- Episode 135 - The Tip of the Iceberg
- Episode 134 - Pencil or Pen?
- Episode 132 - The Connecting Pillar with Stacey Ellis, Matt Halpern, & Dawn Dibley
- Episode 131 - Observing Math Understanding with Michelle Chu & Kristen Emmel
- Episode 130 - Building our Understanding with Dr. Ange Rogers, Duane Habecker, & Shannon McCartney
- Episode 129 - Taking it a Step Further with Fractions & Subitizing
- Episode 128 - Doing Things Differently with Rosalba Serrano, Marian Small & Shannon Kiebler
- Episode 127 - Thinking vs Mimicking
- Episode 126 - Powerful Moments in Math Class with Mike Flynn
- Episdoe 125 - Less Expectation, More Appreciation
- Episode 124 - Math problems with more than one answer (Part 3)
- Episode 123 - Math Problems with More Than One Answer (Part 2)
- Episode 122 - Teaching Division with Remainders Even in The Early Years
- Episode 121 - Math Problems With More Than One Answer (Part 1)
- Episode 120 - My Favorite Mathy Gifts for 2021
- Episode 119 - Managing Small Group Work
- Episode 118 - Making Thinking Visible
- Episode 117 - Why I was gone
- Episode 116 - Stop Teaching Strategies
- Episode 115 - Helping Kids Make Connections in Mathematics with Kelly Rogers
- Episode 114 - Misconceptions about developing Fact Fluency
- Episode 113 - Knowledge Needed for Teaching Mathematics
- Episode 112 - Types of Activities that Build Math Fluency
- Episode 111 - Fluency is the By-Product of Flexibility
- Episode 110 - Responses About The Use of AND in Math
- Episode 109 - Wondering About The Use of AND in Math
- Episode 108 - Creating More Wonder, Joy & Beauty in Math
- Episode 107 - CGI Math
- Episode 106 - Two of my favorite ways to engage students (Virtual Math Summit Preview)
- Episode 105 - 3rd-5th grade sessions at the 2021 Virtual Math Summit
- Episode 104 -Two ways to build number sense (Virtual Math Summit Preview)
- Episode 103 - Preview of 3 more sessions at the 2021 Virtual Math Summit
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