Number of the Day Activities
Number of the day worksheets or activities are very popular in elementary schools, however many of them are boring, take up a lot of time, and don’t build powerful mathematical ideas during that time. They are typically focused on number skills. For instance, one of...
How to Build Fraction Sense
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.
The 2022 Virtual Math Summit
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.
Cultivating Positive Student Identities
Cultivating positive student identities is a nuanced, but very important matter. Rosalba Serrano joins us today to teach us how to do just that.
Why math is taught differently now
In order to make a change in the way we teach elementary math, it’s important to understand why we teach math differently now.
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