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  • 103: Practical Manipulatives with Kimberly Rimbey

    Are your students tired of mundane math worksheets? Do your students lose interest when you say “Time for math!”? Tune in to today’s episode as we dive into the world of fun manipulatives with Kimberly Rimbey, in the math classroom! Let’s keep students engaged and excited about learning! In this episode we will chat about:  About […]

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  • 102: Talk Less so Students Talk More

    Listen, I LOVE to talk. That’s why I have a podcast. I cannot function in my life without talking. I have to talk to work out my ideas, to understand, to fully experience life I have to talk. So, when I learned that maybe I didn’t need to talk quite so much in my classroom… […]

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  • 101: Problem Types & Why They Matter

    I first learned about Problem Types with Cognitively Guided Instruction in the book Children’s Mathematics. The group of researchers studied children and found that when given open ended questions children move through a progression of understanding… when given no explicit instruction. 🤯 It blows teachers minds to think that children can develop understanding with no […]

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  • 100: 4 Ways to Integrate Math with Social Studies

    I am passionate about teaching our students math in student centered ways that help them grow as human beings that are positioned to make a difference in the world. So that means, the work has to be real and relevant. Today we’re going to talk about the power that math can have when you INTEGRATE […]

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  • 99: Thin Sliced Problems

    Thin sliced problems were coined by Peter Liljedahl in his book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics. What are thin sliced problems & how can you use them to meet all the needs of your students? Be sure to listen to this episode so you can learn how to use thin sliced problems in your math classroom.  […]

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  • 97: 6 Ways to Love Teaching Math

    In my 3rd year of teaching, I taught first and second grade. There were so many behavior problems such as kids rolling on the carpet, having fits, peeing their pants, asking to get water or go to the bathroom just to get out of the classroom, yelling out, refusing to do their work…. NO ONE […]

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