HeyJaredThe Build Math Minds Podcast
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.
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Struggling Math Students: What Elementary Teachers Don't Know About Working Memory (& other areas) with Becky Lord and Christina Tondevold (opens the original)
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Have you ever had a student who looks lost before they've even started a problem? Or a kid who can do the steps but can't see the pattern that makes them work? I sat down with Becky Lord of LordMath.com to talk about the five cognitive areas that affect how our students learn math: working memory, processing speed, verbal comprehension, visual processing, and fluid reasoning. Becky explains what each one is, how it shows up when a student is struggling, and what we can change in our teaching rig
Special Edition Episode - Duolingo Math: What Elementary Teachers Need to Know (opens the original)
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Duolingo rolled out full math courses this year. I spent 50+ days, spending time in number sense, addition/subtraction, multiplication, fractions, and even went into 11th grade Algebra & Graphs….until I couldn't take it anymore. Zak and Mike from Flynn Education have also been using it and the three of us recently sat down to talk about it. We broke down what's good, what's bad, and what worried us. If you've wondered whether to recommend this app to families, for your own children, or you're ju
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Episode 231 - What are Mathematical Invitations with Steve Wyborney (opens the original)
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I got to sit down with Steve Wyborney, the brain behind Splat!, Esti-Mysteries, the Estimation Clipboard, and so many other tools I know you've used in your classroom. In this session from Day 3 of the FROM Memorization TO Thinking Summit, Steve takes me back to where it all started: an idea for building estimation jars that flopped. We talk about what estimation really is, why he thinks the second and third estimates matter more than the first, and a simple sentence stem that you can use tomorr
Episode 230 - Assessment Is a Conversation - Getting Kids to Share What They Know with Dr. Nick Newton (opens the original)
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I used to think assessment meant finding what my students didn't know - the wrong answers, the gaps, the "not yet." Dr. Nicki Newton flips that in this session from the FROM Memorization TO Thinking Summit. Her thoughts: assessment shouldn't be about catching what kids don't know. It's about listening for what they do know. In this episode, she shares the story of a 2nd grader who taught her more in one hand-written note than a worksheet ever could, the one question she now asks before starting
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