Episode 203: Number Sense with Christina Tondevold and Mona Iehl

by Build Math Minds | | Designing Lessons, Podcast, Teaching Through Story Problems

Check out Mona’s podcast Math Chat Mona’s website Mona Math Mona Iehl’s book Word Problem Workshop: 5 Steps to Creating a Classroom of Problem Solvers (set to be published October 2025, but you can preorder now) Enroll in The Flexibility Formula Course Welcome fellow...

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

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Join the Build Math Minds PD site to get more resources like the ones shared in this episode Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades (March 2021) Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention...

Episode 199: Flexible Fingers – The Many Ways to Show Numbers with Fingers

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Join the Build Math Minds PD site Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 199: Flexible Fingers – The Many Ways to Show Numbers with Fingers Last week I reshared an old video about using math games in the classroom with Dan Finkel and while watching...

Episode 198: Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel

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Join the Build Math Minds PD site to access the Mini Courses Dan’s website Math For Love Dan’s game Prime Climb Dan’s game Tiny Polka Dot Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 198: Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel. I was recently...

Episode 197: Upleveling Missing Part Games

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Join the Build Math Minds PD site Part 1 – Episode 195: Upleveling Missing Part Activities to Build Deeper Mathematical Thinking Part 2 – Episode 196: Repackaging Style Word Problems: Transforming Missing Part Word Problems Welcome fellow Recovering...

Episode 196: Repackaging Style Word Problems: Transforming Missing Part Word Problems

by Build Math Minds | | Designing Lessons, Podcast, Teaching Through Story Problems

Part 1 (Episode 195)  Join the Build Math Minds PD site Putting Essential Understanding of Multiplication and Division into Practice in Grades 3–5 All the books in the Essential Understandings into Practice series at NCTM Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to...