I really hate homework. Even before I had four kids of my own, I knew I didn’t like giving my students homework, but I just couldn’t really pinpoint why. Watch the video or read the transcript below: Now, this is something that I have been thinking about a...
Recently I had a guest on my vlog, Ann Elise Record, who talked about addition and subtraction word problems. Now, anytime people learn about math problem types, one thing that they want to go do is to go right back and teach the problem types to their students. Watch...
In this era of education, we are being told a lot that we need to change our teaching and how the kids learn mathematics. But, has anyone ever really told you why? Today, we have one of my favorite presenters to learn from, Mike Flynn. He is going to be helping us...
The teaching and learning of mathematics is often not very fun, but my guest today is all about helping educators see that play is really the engine of learning. I hope that you will stick around because I have a guest speaker today, Dan Finkel, who is going to talk...
I come from a game-playing family, and I think that’s why I’m so passionate about playing games, especially when it comes to helping build our kids’ math minds because games have such mathematical power. Now let me start off with making this list is...
In a previous video, I talked about why I had such a problem with number bonds, and there was a good discussion around number bonds and it prompted me to want to talk to you about an alternative to number bonds. Watch the video or read the transcript below: Here are...
Welcome! I’m a Recovering Traditionalist elementary teacher and now, I help teachers and children learn to love math. Explore how I can help provide you PD at your fingertips! BuildMathMinds.com
Welcome! I’m a Recovering Traditionalist elementary teacher and now, I help teachers and children learn to love math. Explore how I can help provide you PD at your fingertips! BuildMathMinds.com