Join the Build Math Minds Facebook group Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site Understanding Measurement and Geometry for Elementary Students video The Navigating Geometry book series from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics The youtube video for this episode  Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 165:  Geometry in PreK-2 is more than just knowing names of shapes Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from the Build Math Minds Facebook group again.  It is a place to ask questions about the teaching and learning o ..read more

Join the Build Math Minds Facebook group Register for the Math Strategy Session Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Multiplication and Division by Susan O’Connell and John SanGiovanni Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Addition and Subtraction by Susan O’Connell and John SanGiovanni Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 164:  The Power of Using Inverse Operations to Subtract & Divide Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from the Build Math Minds Facebook group ..read more

Join the Build Math Minds Facebook group Teaching Problems and the Problems of Teaching by Dr. Magdalene Lampert BrainingCamp.com PolyPad Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site The youtube video for this episode  Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 163:  Helping Your Students to Be a Successful Student Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from the Build Math Minds Facebook group.  As of today we have over 76,000 people in that group.  It is a place to ask questions about the teaching and learning of math and to ask a ..read more

Guiding Children’s Learning of Mathematics by Steve Tipps, et. al Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 162:  Approximation, Precision, & Accuracy in Measurement Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from Bethany who is a member of the Build Math Minds PD site and a winner of one of our Monthly Math Goody Boxes.  Each month inside the PD site, I create a Monthly Missions for the members.  Everyone who completes the mission fills out a form and that e ..read more

Fractions, Percentages, Decimals, and Proportions: A Learning-Teaching Trajectory for Grade 4, 5, and 6 by Frans van Galen, et al Register for the Math Strategy Sessions Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 161: A candy bar is better than a pie…when it comes to fractions Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from the chat from our recent Math Strategy Session.  These sessions are something we created for the members of the Build Math Minds PD site, but we decided ..read more

STAND & TALKS. The best thing I ever did to get students talking to one another. By Sara Van Der Werf Become a member of the Build Math Minds PD site The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 160: Tips for Getting Kids to Talk in Math Class. Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from an email we received about the Virtual Math Summit.  On the day this episode gets released there’s only today and tomorrow to watch the replays from the summit.  So if you are registered don’t forget to go watch them.  ..read more

Register for the 2024 Virtual Math Summit The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 158: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Preventing Teacher Burnout. Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from Facebook comments again.  I’ve been really loving seeing these positive comments about the Virtual Math Summit.   Sue, you are very welcome.  The summit is one of my favorite things to do because we have tens of thousands of educators participating and it’s such an honor to be a part of their math journey by sha ..read more

Register for the 2024 Virtual Math Summit The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 156: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Things to Think About When Doing Number Routines Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from Facebook comments…I know, can you believe there are POSITIVE comments out there on Facebook?!?!  All joking aside, I don’t really enjoy being on social media or replying to comments, so it always makes my day when I am in there going through comments that I see these nice ones.  I was going through comme ..read more

Free resources at BuildMathMinds.com/freebies Register for the 2024 Virtual Math Summit The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 155: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Teaching Math with Newcomers in Mind Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from Pam who emailed in about the free Number Sense e-book she downloaded from BuildMathMinds.com/freebies.   Thank you. I am a special education director and have been following you for years now. I have read the book and I am sharing it with teachers and paraprofessionals t ..read more

Register for the 2024 Virtual Math Summit The youtube video for this episode Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 154: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Helping Students Understand Multiplication Before we get into the episode, this week’s positivity comes from Julie and it’s another throwback from last year’s Virtual Math Summit.  Julie typed this in the chat during the summit: “If all I learn today is what I learned here, it is sooo worth it.”  I wanted to share this one because I want to remind you that even though this year’s Virtual Math Summit has 24 sessions ..read more