The Build Math Minds Podcast
A podcast by Christina Tondevold - Sundays

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163 Episodes
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Episode 187 - Problem Solving Success: 3 Experts’ Ideas from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit
Published: 2/2/2025 -
Episode 186 - Live Elementary Math PD Sessions You Won't Want to Miss: 2025 Virtual Math Summit Preview
Published: 1/26/2025 -
Episode 185 - Tasks for Building Thinking Classrooms - Virtual Math Summit 2025 preview
Published: 1/19/2025 -
Episode 184 - Don’t Discount the Use of Games in Your Classroom
Published: 1/12/2025 -
Episode 183 - The Count - Uncovering Mathematical Structure in Elementary Classrooms
Published: 12/15/2024 -
Episode 182 - Visual Patterns: The Secret Weapon for Teaching The Math Practices
Published: 12/8/2024 -
Episode 181 - Exploring Patterns Through Number Routines
Published: 12/1/2024 -
Episode 180 - Leaping Numbers: a great math activity for exploring patterns
Published: 11/24/2024 -
Episode 179 - A Math Hack That Isn’t a Hack
Published: 11/17/2024 -
Episode 178 - Students who struggle with Less Than problems
Published: 11/10/2024 -
Episode 177 - Math Misconceptions
Published: 11/3/2024 -
Episode 176 - Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms
Published: 10/27/2024 -
Episode 175 - Always Building Relationships - Rounding Numbers Series
Published: 10/20/2024 -
Episode 174 - Helping Students Understand Magnitude of Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series
Published: 10/13/2024 -
Episode 173 - Using Number Lines to Round Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series
Published: 10/6/2024 -
Episode 172 - Is Emotional Teaching a Thing???
Published: 9/29/2024 -
Episode 171 - Summer Book Study for Elementary Math Educators
Published: 6/2/2024 -
Episode 170 - The Importance of Play
Published: 5/26/2024 -
Episode 169 - Math Fluency Through Flexibility
Published: 5/19/2024 -
Episode 168 - Use Math Manipulatives - No Matter The Age
Published: 5/12/2024
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.