Build Math Minds

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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.

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Episode 203: Number Sense with Christina Tondevold and Mona Iehl

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)Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 203:...

Episode 202: Going Beyond the Task When Building Thinking Classrooms with the Special Guests in Our Book Study

Join the Build Math Minds Summer Book Study Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site Tammy’s BTC Facebook group Tammy’s Podcast Little Minds, Big Thinkers Maegen’s book with Peter Liljedahl Math Tasks for the Thinking Classroom K-5 Kim Rimbey’s website Welcome...

Episode 201: Our Summer Book Study – Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom

Enroll in The Flexibility Formula Course Join the Build Math Minds Summer Book Study Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 201: Our Summer Book Study - Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom As the school year starts to come to a close, so does this...

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

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

Join the Build Math Minds PD siteWelcome 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 Dan’s...

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

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 DotWelcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 198: Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel. I was recently...

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