189 Episodes

  1. Episode 214 - The REAL Purpose of Teaching Math (And Why It Matters More Than Ever)

    Published: 11/23/2025

  2. Episode 213 - Seeing Multiplication - How Subitizing Builds Fact Fluency Through Relationships

    Published: 11/16/2025

  3. Episode 212 - Subitizing With Fractions

    Published: 11/9/2025

  4. Episode 211 - Building Number Sense Without Adding to Your Plate

    Published: 11/2/2025

  5. Episode 210 - Why Good Activities Aren't Enough - The Missing Piece That Makes Number Sense Work

    Published: 10/26/2025

  6. Episode 209 - The Power of Integration - Why Teaching Number Sense Concepts Together Accelerates Learning

    Published: 10/19/2025

  7. Episode 208 - The Number Relationships That Transform Math Understanding

    Published: 10/12/2025

  8. Episode 207 - The Math Foundations - What Elementary Students Need Before You Ever Have Them Operate with Numbers

    Published: 10/5/2025

  9. Episode 206 - 1% Better - The 4-Minute Daily Math Difference

    Published: 9/28/2025

  10. Episode 205 - Stop Coaching Everyone: Use the 80/20 Rule to Transform Your Elementary Math Coaching

    Published: 9/21/2025

  11. Episode 204 -Timed Math Activities…Good or Bad?

    Published: 9/14/2025

  12. Episode 203 - Number Sense with Christina Tondevold and Mona Iehl

    Published: 5/25/2025

  13. Episode 202 - Going Beyond the Task When Building Thinking Classrooms with the Special Guests in Our Book Study

    Published: 5/18/2025

  14. Episode 201 - Our Summer Book Study - Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom

    Published: 5/11/2025

  15. Episode 200 - The Three Essential Math Experiences: Number Routines, Word Problems, and Games

    Published: 5/4/2025

  16. Episode 199 - The Many Ways to Show Numbers with Fingers

    Published: 4/27/2025

  17. Episode 198 - Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel

    Published: 4/20/2025

  18. Episode 197 - Upleveling Missing Part Games

    Published: 4/13/2025

  19. Episode 196 - Repackaging Style Word Problems: Transforming Missing Part Word Problems

    Published: 4/6/2025

  20. Episode 195 - Upleveling Missing Part Activities to Build Deeper Mathematical Thinking

    Published: 3/30/2025

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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.