How would the students in your class respond to the following question: What number would you put in the box to make this a true number sentence? 8 + 4 = ▢  + 5 The majority of elementary kids put ‘12’ in the box.  In today’s episode we are talking about the book Thinking Mathematically and what we can learn from it to help our students better understand equality in math.

How would the students in your class respond to the following question: What number would you put in the box to make this a true number sentence? 8 + 4 = ▢ + 5 The majority of elementary kids put ‘12’ in the box. In today’s episode we are talking about the book Thinking Mathematically and what we can learn from it to help our students better understand equality in math.

How would the students in your class respond to the following question: What number would you put in the box to make this a true number sentence? 8 + 4 = ▢&nbsp; + 5 The majority of elementary kids put ‘12’ in the box.&nbsp; In today’s episode we are talking about the book Thinking Mathematically and what we can learn from it to help our students better understand equality in math.

Episode 89 - Understanding Equality

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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