The Recovering Traditionalist
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Working to help teachers think outside the traditional way of doing, and teaching, mathematics. I'm a Recovering Traditionalist elementary teacher and now, I help teachers and children learn to love math.
The Recovering Traditionalist
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1y ago
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1y ago
Textbooks don't spend enough time building fraction sense with students. In this vlog, I go into how to build fraction sense in your classroom.
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The Recovering Traditionalist
2y ago
The Build Math Minds 2022 Virtual Math Summit is coming soon! The past 5 years, I’ve done Virtual Math Summit in August but this year, I want to do it in February so teachers can take what they learn and implement it on Monday. Here is the list of speakers for 2022.
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2y ago
Cultivating positive student identities is a nuanced, but very important matter. Rosalba Serrano joins us today to teach us how to do just that.
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2y ago
Each month I take a hot topic inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group and dive a little deeper into it via a live video training. This video is from one of the hot topic deep dives I did when a member asked Does Multiplication Mean “Groups of”?
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The Recovering Traditionalist
2y ago
In this week’s video training, I’m talking about ten frames are very well known and commonly used in the early grades of elementary school, but did you know that they are a powerful tool no matter what grade level you teach in elementary?
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2y ago
In this week’s video training, I’m talking about one of the biggest mistakes we make when building math fluency.
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The Recovering Traditionalist
2y ago
In this live training I did for the Build Math Minds Facebook group, I talked about how place value and number sense go hand-in-hand.
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