178 Episodes

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

    Published: 5/25/2025

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

    Published: 5/18/2025

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

    Published: 5/11/2025

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

    Published: 5/4/2025

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

    Published: 4/27/2025

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

    Published: 4/20/2025

  7. Episode 197 - Upleveling Missing Part Games

    Published: 4/13/2025

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

    Published: 4/6/2025

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

    Published: 3/30/2025

  10. Episode 194 - The Truth About Mental Math - It's Not Just In Your Head

    Published: 3/23/2025

  11. Episode 193 - Beyond the Template - Making the Lesh Translation Model Meaningful

    Published: 3/16/2025

  12. Episode 192 - A Math Task All Teachers Should be Doing

    Published: 3/9/2025

  13. Episode 191 - Math Teaching Strategies: Highlights from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit Live Sessions

    Published: 3/2/2025

  14. Episode 189 - Making Math Irresistible: 4 Expert Strategies for Student Engagement in Elementary Math

    Published: 2/16/2025

  15. Episode 188 - The Science of Making Math Stick: Using Brain Research to Combat the NAEP Score Crisis

    Published: 2/9/2025

  16. Episode 187 - Problem Solving Success: 3 Experts’ Ideas from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit

    Published: 2/2/2025

  17. Episode 186 - Live Elementary Math PD Sessions You Won't Want to Miss: 2025 Virtual Math Summit Preview

    Published: 1/26/2025

  18. Episode 185 - Tasks for Building Thinking Classrooms - Virtual Math Summit 2025 preview

    Published: 1/19/2025

  19. Episode 184 - Don’t Discount the Use of Games in Your Classroom

    Published: 1/12/2025

  20. Episode 183 - The Count - Uncovering Mathematical Structure in Elementary Classrooms

    Published: 12/15/2024

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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.