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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 148: Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?

by Christina Tondevold | Jun 19, 2022

Beyond Pizzas & Pies, Grades 3-5: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense by Julie McNamara and Meghan M. Shaughnessy How to Build Fraction Sense Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 148. Today we are looking at one answer to...

Episode 147: Practice Makes Permanent

by Christina Tondevold | Jun 12, 2022

Here in the United States, it is the end of the school year and teachers are contemplating what work they should send home with students for them to do over the summer. In today’s podcast, I get into why I’m not a big fan of general problem packets over the summer and how the phrase “practice makes perfect” is a little inaccurate.

Episode 146: Standard Algorithms Compared to Computational Strategies

by Christina Tondevold | Jun 5, 2022

Resources mentioned in this episode: A New Vision for Developing Addition and Subtraction Computation Strategies By Randall Charles Enroll in The Flexibility Formula Course Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 146. Today let’s take a look at...

Episode 145: Math Textbooks Have the Teaching of Fluency All Wrong

by Christina Tondevold | May 29, 2022

Resources mentioned in this episode: Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success For All by The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics The Flexibility Formula K-2, online math PD course for Kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers The Flexibility Formula...

Episode 144: What is Computational Fluency?

by Christina Tondevold | May 22, 2022

The Flexibility Formula courses that I offer have a huge focus on how we can help kids develop number sense, but the main reason to focus on number sense is really to help your students become flexible thinkers; to build their flexibility in mathematics. In episode 144, I talk about how my courses started and the research that inspired them. Come take a listen as I discuss the concepts that make up computational fluency.

Episode 143: Summer Reading List for Elementary Math Teachers 2022

by Christina Tondevold | May 15, 2022

Each of you listening to this podcast have different goals for your professional development. You have different things you are wanting to read about to help your students next year have an even better math experience in your classroom. So I’ve compiled a bunch of different lists on Amazon so you can choose from books for specific areas you want to focus on. Come check out Episode #143 where I share my summer reading lists for elementary math teachers for 2022.

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