<p dir="ltr">My kids and I play a lot. Sports, card games, board games, but they all have a preset goal…to win. According to a book I'm reading, true play does NOT have a preset goal. So it got me wondering how much true play my kids, and I, actually do. I'm making it a goal to include more opportunities for us to truly play. In this episode I'm sharing my ideas on what I will be doing this summer to play (and getting my kids to join in) plus I give you the Seven Principles of Self-Active Play they lay out in the book I'm reading. Get any links mentioned in this video at <a href= "http://buildmathminds.com/170">BuildMathMinds.com/170</a> </p>

My kids and I play a lot. Sports, card games, board games, but they all have a preset goal…to win. According to a book I'm reading, true play does NOT have a preset goal. So it got me wondering how much true play my kids, and I, actually do. I'm making it a goal to include more opportunities for us to truly play. In this episode I'm sharing my ideas on what I will be doing this summer to play (and getting my kids to join in) plus I give you the Seven Principles of Self-Active Play they lay out in the book I'm reading. Get any links mentioned in this video at BuildMathMinds.com/170

<p>My kids and I play a lot. Sports, card games, board games, but they all have a preset goal…to win. According to a book I'm reading, true play does NOT have a preset goal. So it got me wondering how much true play my kids, and I, actually do. I'm making it a goal to include more opportunities for us to truly play. In this episode I'm sharing my ideas on what I will be doing this summer to play (and getting my kids to join in) plus I give you the Seven Principles of Self-Active Play they lay out in the book I'm reading. Get any links mentioned in this video at <a href="http://buildmathminds.com/170" rel="noopener noreferrer">BuildMathMinds.com/170</a> </p>

Episode 170 - The Importance of Play

The Build Math Minds podcast is for my fellow Recovering Traditionalists out there. If you don't know whether or not you are a Recovering Traditionalist, here's how I define us. We are math educators who used to teach math the traditional way. Flip lesson by lesson in the textbook, directly teaching step-by-step how to solve math problems. But now, we are working to change that to a style of teaching math that is fun and meets our students where they are at, not just teaching what comes next in the textbook. We want to encourage our students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and lovers of mathematics..we are wanting to build our students math minds and not just create calculators. If that is you, then this podcast is for you.

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