Allison Loves Math Podcast

Is it possible to help our math students become better citizens, while teaching them statistics?

Tune in to today's episode with Jana Asher & Jeffrey Musyt, assistant professors at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Slippery Rock University. Through the Office of Community Engaged Learning at Slippery Rock University, Jana & Jeffrey have been using 'community-engagement' projects to level up how they teach Statistics and will share how you can do the same in your classroom!

The key topics discussed in this episode include:

• How to use statistics as a tool for becoming a good citizen [6.06]
• How to foster relationships with community partners in your school [12.32]
• Know what to do (and not to do) when creating a community-engaged project [18.00]
• Jana shares the importance of having a backup dataset plan [19.45]
• Even as a teacher, it is OKAY to make mistakes [22.44]

Connect with Jana Asher & Jeffrey Musyt

• To get Jana & Jeffrey's Presentation on Community-Engaged Learning, email them at [email protected] or [email protected].
• Jana's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janaasher/
• Office for Community Engaged Learning: https://www.sru.edu/offices/community-engaged-learning
• Campus Compact: https://compact.org/

Connect with Allison Dillard

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Website: https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/
• Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/allisonlovesmath
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllisonLovesMath
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/AllisonLuvsMath

Get the first 2 Chapters of Allison's upcoming book, Crush Hypothesis Testing, for free at https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/free

Does your daughter feel anxious when it comes to dealing with math? If yes, this episode is for you!

Welcome to the very first episode of Season 2 of the Allison Loves Math Podcast. In this episode, I interview the founder of Black Girl MATHgic, Brittany Rhodes. Black Girl MATHgic is the world's first and only subscription box dedicated to increasing math confidence and decreasing math anxiety in 3rd-8th grade girls. Brittany shares three things you can do to lessen your child's math phobia and set your child up for success with math and STEM.

Brittany and Allison discuss:

• What keeps Brittany driven to help students with their math struggles [2:58]
• Cool features from the Black Girl MATHgic box [5.42]
• A solution to the bias one might face while dealing with math [10.20]
• How Brittany dealt with the bias she faced from her science teacher while she was in seventh grade [11.29]
• Homework that up-levels math skills [17.09]
• How to develop confidence in learning math [18.52]
• How repeating math affirmations can help you reach your goals [25.20]

Connect with Black Girl Mathgic

• Website : https://blackgirlmathgic.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlmathgic/
• Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/blackgirlmathgic

Connect with Allison Dillard

• Website: https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/
• Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/allisonlovesmath
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllisonLovesMath
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/AllisonLuvsMath

Get a FREE copy of Raise your Math Grade at https://allisonlovesmath.mykajabi.com/booksbyallison

In this special 50th episode & Season 1 finale of the Allison Loves Math Podcast, I talk with Marie Fiebach of the Feed Your Family Tonight Podcast, Janice Scholl of the Money, Career & Motherhood Podcast, and Jeanann Khalife of the Divorced Demystified Podcast about how and why to rest, recharge and not do math over the summer. In today's episode: - We talk about taking the summer to rest, have fun, and live the life that you want your kids to grow up to have. - Marie shares how to approach meals for the family over the summer (Spoiler: Cut yourself some slack!) - Janice shares tips to juggle the tug-of-war of work-life balance during the summer. - Jeanann shares why planning fun for the adults, not just the kids, is super important. Marie: Get Marie's Weekly Meal Plan Sheet at: https://feedyourfamilytonight.com/math Janice: Schedule a free career break strategy session with Janice at: https://moneycareermotherhood.com/ Jeanann: Sign up for a free consultation with Jeanann at: https://www.altdivorcesolutions.com/about-us/jeanann-khalife/

Today, I interview Greg Mullen, a CA credentialed K-8 teacher, host of the Exploring the Core Podcast, and author of Creating a Self-Directed Learning Environment about how to teach both social-emotional learning skills and standards to our math students. Greg covers: - What standards are at their core and why they are important - What social-emotional learning skills are and how they bolster student success in math - The nuanced difference between teaching students math and teaching them how to learn math - Practical tips to embed social-emotional learning into your math class to make for a more empowering learning experience You can listen to Allison's interview on Greg's podcast, Exploring the Core, at https://exploring-the-core-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/s2e5 You can learn more about Greg at www.exploringthecore.com. You can learn more about Allison at www.allisonlovesmath.com.

This week, I interviewed Nicole Santamaria, a bilingual occupational therapist and founder of OT for Real Life, about why some kids get stuck in math and how we can help them get unstuck.

Nicole shares:

• What occupational therapists do and how they can support students struggling in math

• Teaching strategies to help your students who struggle with task analysis and executive functioning skills

• Tweaks to instruction that can help math students who struggle with taking notes and showing their work

• Ways to introduce, break down and help students with math word problems

Find out more about Nicole at

https://www.miamihandwriting.net/podcast.

Get podcast updates and Allison's FREE resources to Inspire Your Students to Love Math at www.allisonlovesmath.com

In today's podcast, I'm experimenting with a new type of episode format! There's no guest and it's going to be a short and quick episode geared towards Statistics students. If you're a Statistics teacher, I encourage you to share this podcast episode or YouTube video with your class. It even comes with a quick assignment at the end: Answer the question, "Why is Statistics important for you?"

In this short episode for students, I discuss:

• Why you should never take a class or spend time on things that are not important or meaningful.

• How Statistics is relevant to our everyday lives and a crucial component to understanding the world.

• The ways Statistics will prepare you for and impact your career, even if it's a career that's not STEM-related.

• Why it's important to take classes, like Statistics, that are challenging and confusing.

You can find out more about my upcoming book, Crush Hypothesis Testing, at https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/

Today, I talk with Kabo Sekoele, an online math tutor from South Africa and former civil engineering student, about how parents can help their 5th-7th grade kids strengthen their skills in and mindset about math.

Kabo shares:

• What growth mindset is and why it's crucial to student success in math
• Her own experience with math anxiety as a child and #1 thing that helped her overcome it
• Why developing a growth mindset around math is crucial to raising good, resilient kids
• Tips for parents to help their kids develop a growth mindset

You can get Allison's free ebook, Raise Your Math Grade, at www.allisonlovesmath.com/freebook

You can schedule a free consultation with Kabo at http://kabothemathtutor.com/

You can watch Kabo's videos on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL6padPyfvQZwyKOPpJc7Tw.

In today's interview, my co-author Nicole Thomson and I talk about a new growth mindset resource we've created for 4th-8th graders called the Love Math Journal. It was inspired by my original interview with Nicole, #44 Using Gratitude to Help Students Overcome Math Anxiety.

You can get it today on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Journal-Affirmations-Reflections-ebook/dp/B095J36SPN

For Nicole's Canadian friends, you can also get it on Amazon.ca: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/195072008X

Nicole is a former elementary school teacher, founder of The Fulfill Classroom, and author of The Little Things. Nicole and I discuss:

• How our first podcast interview evolved into a unique joint project, combining my work in math and mindset with Nicole's work with gratitude and happiness.

• The many reasons why it's important for students to love math and how we as teachers and parents can help students to value math and enjoy learning it.

• What growth mindset and fixed mindsets are and how they affect a student's ability to succeed in math

• What gratitude and affirmations are, how they help students strengthen social and emotional skills, and how to consistently integrate this into how we teach math.

• How the Love Math Journal is a quick and easy resource for teachers, who want to help their students develop growth mindsets, think more deeply about how they approach math, and, ultimately, love math.

You can get Allison and Nicole's Love Math Journal at Amazon.com!

This week, I interview Nicole Thomson, former elementary school teacher and founder of The Fulfilled Classroom, about using gratitude to rediscover our joy of teaching, while simultaneously helping our students to overcome their math anxiety.

Following the interview, Nicole and I decided to join forces to create the Love Math Journal, a growth mindset resource for 4th-8th graders with 200+ quick prompts, affirmations, and reflections. It will be available on Amazon starting May 23rd!

In this interview, Nicole shares:

• How to create a fulfilled classroom, even if your class is filled with math-anxious students
• The many benefits of gratitude and how to incorporate it into your math class
• How Allison's similar out-of-the-box experiments with meditation and visualization have helped her remedial math students (see Allison's experiment in the Miracle Morning for Teacher's book by Hal Elrod and Honoree Corder)
• What to do if you're nervous or hesitant about experimenting with gratitude in your math class

Get Nicole's free eBook "Implementing Gratitude in the Classroom" at https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5fa9a12b6996343ac57ae7f3.

Get Allison's FREE resources to inspire your students to love math at www.allisonlovesmath.com.

Today, I have a super fun talk with Zoey and Bia, co-hosts of the How to Rob a Bank Podcast, about how we can help girls and women in STEM and math to overcome imposter syndrome.

Bia and Zoey discuss:

• What imposter syndrome is and how it can affect one's success in math and STEM

• The time-consuming pitfalls of being a perfectionist and ways to fight perfectionist tendencies

• How playing the part of a "natural genius" at math can cause insecurities and stress when you finally hit work that challenges you

• Why it's better to build a support system than to try to succeed in math and STEM all on our own

Listen to Bia and Zoey's podcast, How to Rob a Bank, at http://www.how2robabank.com/.

Get Allison's free math resources at www.allisonlovesmath.com.