Allison Loves Math Podcast

In today's interview, John Lanza, author of The Art of Allowance and creator of The Money Mammals, and I talk about tips to help parents raise money-smart kids.

We discuss:

• How to give your child a head-start in understanding money
• The importance of teaching kids about spending, sharing, and saving
• Different ideas for age-appropriate allowances
• A quick tip to avoid impulse purchases

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Get Allison's FREE Love Math Quick Start Guide at allisonlovesmath.com.

In today's episode, I talk with educational therapists, Stephanie Pitts and Rachel Kapp, about how executive function skills affect how a child learns math.

In this episode, we learn:

• What executive functioning is and why it's important
• The best way to ask your teacher for help when your child needs to do things differently
• What time blindness is and how to recognize it
• Creating teachable moments when you don't know the answers to your kids' homework

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Don't miss Allison's FREE parent and teacher resources, including Allison's Crush Math Anxiety Game Plan, at allisonlovesmath.com.

You can find out more about Stephanie Pitts at https://myedtherapist.com/

You can find out more about Rachel Kapp at https://www.kappedtherapy.com/

In this interview, I get to chat with Melissa Dean, math teacher and infamous blogger at Dean of Math, about ways to shake things up in your math class!

In this episode, Melissa shares:

• Creative ways to kick off your math class
• Two simple questions to get kids engaged
• Why school and math class must be challenging
• A plea to encourage arguments and discussion in the classroom

Please subscribe to Allison Loves Math so that you never miss an interview!

Get Allison's FREE Inspire Your Students to Love Math Quick Start Guide at allisonlovesmath.com.

Read Melissa's blog at https://deanofmath.wordpress.com/.

In this episode, I chat with Betsy Jewell, host of The High School Hamster Wheel podcast and expert in helping out parents who are running in circles trying to help their teen navigate what to do after high school.

In this episode, Betsy shares:

• Why you shouldn't overlook community college
• Interesting stats on the world of work for our kids generation
• The lessons we learned from taking the wrong path
• The skills your child needs that isn't taught in high school

Please subscribe to Allison Loves Math so that you never miss an interview!

Don't miss Allison's FREE parent and teacher resources, including a free downloadable copy of Allison's book Raise Your Math Grade, at https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/

Learn more about Betsy at https://betsyjewell.com/

Margaret Dahlberg isn't the typical guest you'll find on a math podcast! She is a classically trained pianist, composer, and music educator... and Allison is talking with her today about music, emotions and math anxiety.

In this episode, Allison and Margaret discuss:

• Margaret's story of picking herself up from a life-altering car accident
• Parenting conversations to help kids overcome failure and anxiety
• Allison's month-long experiment in her math class to help students overcome math anxiety
• How different types of meditation and music can help students with math anxiety
• How Margaret creates music to help express and relieve some tough emotions

We also have our first mini-concert on the podcast!

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Check out Allison's Crush Math Anxiety Resource Vault at https://allisonlovesmath.mykajabi.com/math-anxiety-tips-resources

You can find out more about Margaret on her website guidedharmonies.com

Steve Warner loves math, specifically teaching pure math, writing pure math books, and helping to introduce pure math concepts to math-loving high school students.

In this episode, I interview Steve Warner, math professor at Hofstra University and bestselling author of more than 30 books, including the Pure Math for Beginner series. In this fun conversation, Steve shares:

• What pure math is and why it's awesome
• Where and how parents can introduce their high schoolers to pure math
• The benefits of introducing students to pure math early
• How learning pure math can help a students' SAT and ACT scores

You can learn more about Steve at https://www.get800testprep.com/.

Denis Sheeran, the author of Instant Relevance and a former math teacher, loves helping math teachers to make math more interesting, relevant, and engaging for students.

In this episode, we cover:

• Stepping out of your comfort zone as an educator
• How a simple trip to New York led to a school math project
• How to find and experiment with ways to make math relevant
• Balancing engaging math lessons with required curriculum

Please subscribe to Allison Loves Math so that you never miss an interview!

Don't miss my FREE parent and teacher resources, including the 7 Secrets that Parents of Successful Math Students Know, at allisonlovesmath.com.

To find more about Denis visit his website here https://denissheeran.com/

Laura Link, founder of Link Private tutoring and the Communications Director of The National Test Prep Association, loves math and helping students do their best on the ACT.

In this interview, Laura shares with us:

• How to introduce test prep correctly (and early) to avoid test anxiety
• Questions you should ask your school guidance counselor
• The differences and similarities between AP and dual enrollment classes
• A brief walkthrough of National Merit Scholarship info
• The hardest concepts to teach on the ACT (and how to set your child up for success in these difficult areas)

Please subscribe to Allison Loves Math so that you never miss an interview!

Don't miss Allison's FREE parent and teacher resources, including the 7 Secrets that Parents of Successful Math Students Know, at www.allisonlovesmath.com.

Watch the original Live recording of this interview on Facebook.

You can learn more about Laura at https://linkprivatetutoring.com.

Today, we speak to Punam Saxena, parent coach, host of the Edu-Me Podcast, and author of the upcoming book, Power Parent.

In this episode, Punam shares with us:

• How to build a strong relationship with your child's teacher and school
• Parent Guilt: What is it and how to get a handle on it?
• Helpful strategies for self-care and crushing mom-guilt

Please subscribe to Allison Loves Math so that you never miss an interview!

Don't miss my FREE parent and teacher resources, including the 7 Secrets that Parents of Successful Math Students Know, at allisonlovesmath.com.

You can learn more about how to work with Punam at https://www.edu-me.net/

***A quick note on this episode: We had some tech issues with this recording so you will hear some distortion, but Ginah had some great pieces of advice that I didn't want you to miss. Enjoy!

This week, I interview Ginah Taylor, a mom of 6 homeschooled kids, about the mathematics of weight loss!

In this episode, Ginah shares:

• What metabolic profiling is and how to learn what you should eat more and less of
• What you need to know if you keep regaining the weight you lose
• The major change Gina made in homeschooling her son when he switched to high school courses
• The importance of knowing your child's learning style

Subscribe to my Parent Resource Vault, which includes a free ebook copy of Raise Your Math Grade, at allisonlovesmath.com.

You can connect with Ginah in her Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/gina.taylor.9480111