Kids Math Talk

Kids Math Talk

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Kids Math Talk episodes

  • Everything You Never Learned About Fractions- Part 1

    Kids should have time and space to learn concepts and should have the chance to talk about math and demonstrate understanding through performance tasks, not just paper and pencil activities. 

    What follows is not an exhaustive explanation of fractions - This episode is focused on giving educators and parents some “look fors” and questions to ask to help children begin to explore their understanding of fractions as numbers.
    This episode talks about the 5 mental actions of fractions: 

    1. Unitizing
    2. Fragmenting and Partitioning
    3. Iterating
    4. Disembedding
    5. Distributing


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    16 min
  • 5 Practices to Improve your Practice - An Interview with Peg Smith

    Today’s guest, Dr. Peg Smith, has written almost one hundred books and articles (that's so impressive) and she has devoted over two decades to creating research-based materials for teachers and teacher educators.  In addition to receiving numerous awards for her accomplishments, she was an NCTM Lifetime Award recipient in 2019. She is an amazing gift to the mathematics education community and today she talks to us about her new book, The 5 Practices in Practice (2020)- Anticipating Student Responses, Monitoring Student Learning, Selecting and Sequencing, and Connecting. Stay tuned for a special announcement at the end!

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    39 min
  • KMT Spotlight: Growth Mindset with Kendra Thurmond

    Today is the first of a new type of episode for our podcast. It’s called the KMT Spotlight which aims to highlight additional voices in the math community and celebrate all of the amazing things happening. 

    We are looking for additional teachers, teacher educators, and parents for these episodes. If you would like to be a KMT Spotlight guest, email Desiree Harrison at [email protected] or connect with her on Twitter (@kidsmathtalk).


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    30 min
  • How Do We Create Thinking Classrooms? - An Interview with Peter Liljedahl

    In episode 16, host Desiree Harrison talks with researcher and author Peter Liljedahl  about his new book - Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (2020) - which focuses on unpacking practices that promote growth, community, engagement, and positive mathematical identities in order to promote student centered classrooms.

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    51 min

About Kids Math Talk

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Children are listening and learning from everything we say. The goal of the Kids Math Talk Podcast is to give parents and educators practical tips and insights that will deepen mathematical…