The BEST Way To Teach Subtraction

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Recently I received an email asking me, “what is the BEST way to teach subtraction?”. My response was, “I’m kind of the wrong person to ask because I don’t think we should teach subtraction strategies.” In this vlog, I explain that statement and talk about...

How to Build Fraction Sense

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Today we’re going to talk about How to Build Fraction Sense in the Elementary Grades.  Operating with fractions is what most textbooks focus on.  But in order to understand the operations, we first need to develop fraction sense. I’m Christina Tondevold, The...

Cultivating Positive Student Identities

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What if every student had a positive self identity? What if we thought of every student and talked about every student in a positive way? In this video, I have a special guest because the questions I asked above are things I’m honestly not that good at doing or know...

Does Multiplication mean ‘Groups of’?

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Every month inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group, we watch out for a hot topic. Something that sparked a lively debate, a lot of comments, some unsureness or anything that might be interesting to dive a little bit deeper into. Our hot topic this month inside of...

Place Value and Number Sense

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Place value is so much more than just what digit is in each place.  It’s about the value of those numbers and how it relates to other numbers.  That sounds simple, but is actually hard to help kids develop. This video is from a live training I did inside the Build...