189 Episodes

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

    Published: 3/23/2025

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

    Published: 3/16/2025

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

    Published: 3/9/2025

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

    Published: 3/2/2025

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

    Published: 2/16/2025

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

    Published: 2/9/2025

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

    Published: 2/2/2025

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

    Published: 1/26/2025

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

    Published: 1/19/2025

  10. Episode 184 - Don't Discount the Use of Games in Your Classroom

    Published: 1/12/2025

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

    Published: 12/15/2024

  12. Episode 182 - Visual Patterns: The Secret Weapon for Teaching The Math Practices

    Published: 12/8/2024

  13. Episode 181 - Exploring Patterns Through Number Routines

    Published: 12/1/2024

  14. Episode 180 - Leaping Numbers: a great math activity for exploring patterns

    Published: 11/24/2024

  15. Episode 179 - A Math Hack That Isn't a Hack

    Published: 11/17/2024

  16. Episode 178 - Students who struggle with Less Than problems

    Published: 11/10/2024

  17. Episode 177 - Math Misconceptions

    Published: 11/3/2024

  18. Episode 176 - Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms

    Published: 10/27/2024

  19. Episode 175 - Always Building Relationships - Rounding Numbers Series

    Published: 10/20/2024

  20. Episode 174 - Helping Students Understand Magnitude of Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series

    Published: 10/13/2024

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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.