It seems like there is a debate about everything in how we teach math.  One of those debates is whether or not kids should do paper-pencil math or mental math.  If you’ve been around awhile you can probably guess where I land on this debate….right in the middle, kids need both. In the book <a href= "https://amzn.to/2NZ60Mj">Math: Facing an American Phobia</a> by Marilyn Burns she pretty much sums up my thoughts on pages 10-11.   Go over to buildmathminds.com/85 to get the link to purchase the book.

It seems like there is a debate about everything in how we teach math. One of those debates is whether or not kids should do paper-pencil math or mental math. If you’ve been around awhile you can probably guess where I land on this debate….right in the middle, kids need both. In the book Math: Facing an American Phobia by Marilyn Burns she pretty much sums up my thoughts on pages 10-11. Go over to buildmathminds.com/85 to get the link to purchase the book.

It seems like there is a debate about everything in how we teach math.&nbsp; One of those debates is whether or not kids should do paper-pencil math or mental math.&nbsp; If you’ve been around awhile you can probably guess where I land on this debate….right in the middle, kids need both. In the book <a href="https://amzn.to/2NZ60Mj" rel="noopener noreferrer">Math: Facing an American Phobia</a> by Marilyn Burns she pretty much sums up my thoughts on pages 10-11.&nbsp; &nbsp;Go over to buildmathminds.com/85 to get the link to purchase the book.

Episode 85 - Paper-Pencil versus Mental Computation

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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