Episode 6: Contexts for Learning Fractions

by buildmathminds | | Designing Lessons, Podcast, Teaching Through Story Problems

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 6 where we take a look at Contexts for Learning Fractions. Today we are talking about a quote from Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents by Cathy Fosnot and Maarten Dolk. On...

Episode 5: Bandaids and Bandwagons

by buildmathminds | | Changing Instruction, Instructional Theory, Podcast

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 5 where we take a look at how Bandaids and Bandwagons are something you need to avoid when teaching mathematics.Today we are talking about a quote from Faster Isn’t Smarter by Cathy L. Seeley. In this book, Cathy...

Episode 4: Inspiration from Ann Elise Record

by buildmathminds | | Inspiration from Educators, Instructional Theory, Podcast

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 4. In this episode, we talk with Ann Elise Record to learn about her Recovering Traditionalist journey from being a 5th-grade teacher to helping other teachers build their math minds AND you’ll get her suggestion on...

Episode 3: Balancing the Equation

by buildmathminds | | Instructional Theory, Podcast

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 3 where we are going to look at what it takes to have a Balanced Instructional approach to the teaching of mathematics. Today we are taking a look at a quote from Balancing the Equation by Matt Larson & Timothy...

Episode 2: Three Phase Lesson Format to create a Student Centered Mathematics classroom

by Christina Tondevold | | Changing Instruction, Designing Lessons, Podcast

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 2 where we will explore the 3-Phase Lesson Format that is essential to having a student-centered math classroom. In Episode 1 I shared about Cognitively Guided Instruction.  A big part of CGI is teaching math...

Episode 1 – Children’s Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction

by Christina Tondevold | | CGI, Changing Instruction, Podcast, Teaching Through Story Problems

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 1.  Today we are looking at an insight I got from one of the books that forever changed my life, Children’s Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction. Now this book is full of goodness and you’re...