Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 78.  Today we are talking about Looking for the CAN DOs in Math.

In today’s episode you get to listen in on a conversation I got to have with an alumni of my online course, Amy Warren.  Amy is an elementary special education teacher.  We discuss all kinds of topics from looking for the things kids CAN DO to how to do assessments with young kids, even if you are doing virtual school.  Go to buildmathminds.com/78 to get links to everything we mention in this episode.

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 77.  Today we are taking a look at Predicting Later Academic Success.

In this episode, I’m sharing a very research heavy article, but it is worth the read.  School Readiness and Later Achievement by Duncan, et al provides such an interesting observation through their meta-analysis of data sets that looked at school readiness (school-entry academic, attention, and socioemotional skills) and later academic success in reading and math.  I’m linking up the article over at buildmathminds.com/77

What’s so interesting about the findings from this article is that the strongest predictors of later academic success are school-entry math, reading, and attention skills. And early math skills have the greatest predictive power, followed by reading and then the attention skills. 

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 76.  Today we are taking a look at tips for Creating Images for Subitizing.

The first time I was introduced to Subitizing was in the article Subitizing: What Is It? Why Teach It? By Douglas Clements.  The article was published in 1999, but one thing I discovered through that article was even though the term was fairly new, there had been research done around it from as far back as 1912!  Still today we have lots of elementary educators who don’t know what Subitizing is, why it’s important, or how to teach it.

If you aren’t sure what Subitizing is, then pause this video and go download the article.  I’ll link to it over at buildmathminds.com/76 and then you can come back and listen to the rest of this episode because what I’d like to chat about today is some advice on how to actually create images to use for subitizing activities.

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 75.  Today we are taking a look at how Counting is a Substitute for Sense Making.

“To encourage counting can actually interfere with the construction of number in that it is a rote process that may be devoid of any mathematical meaning.”

When I read that sentence on page 15 of the book Coming to Know Number by Wheatley & Reynolds, my first instinct was to slam the book shut.  My shoulders immediately clenched up and I thought ‘How in the world can they say that!?!?  Counting and our number system is the basis for all mathematical ideas.’

In today’s episode I talk about what the book continues on to say and how my shoulders started to relax.  Get all the details from today’s episode over at buildmathminds.com/75 

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 74.  Today we are talking about Why Children Have Difficulties with their Math Facts.

Why Children Have Difficulties Mastering the Basic Number Combinations and How to Help Them by Arthur Baroody is the article that opened my eyes to the true root of student difficulties with mastering their math facts: A Lack of Number Sense.  

The reason I fell in love with this article was because I saw myself in it.  I saw myself as the learners he talks about and I even saw myself as some of the teachers he talks about.  In the article he describes what ‘Conventional Wisdom’ says to help students who are struggling but then opposes that with the “Number Sense View.”  He does this for 3 different scenarios related to helping kids learn their facts. Get the link to the article here: buildmathminds.com/74 

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 73.  Today we are talking about Addressing Unfinished Learning.

As we start back to school this year a common concern is how to address the unfinished learning that may have happened during COVID-19.  So today I’d like to encourage you to check out two documents put out by the Student Achievement Partners.  I’m talking about one of them, Addressing Unfinished Learning, on the podcast today.

Get all the details and links at buildmathminds.com/73 

In this week’s podcast, I’m sharing a small part of the book The Distance Learning Playbook, that can help you build teacher-student relationships from a distance. I think this is one of the hardest, yet most impactful, things you can do while teaching from a distance.  Get all the details and links at buildmathminds.com/72

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 71.  Today we are talking about ways to Continue the Learning from the Virtual Math Summit.

The free access to the sessions is over but your opportunity to learn from the summit speakers is not over.  So many of them have free resources & trainings available on their sites and many others have written books that have personally changed my teaching.  Some of them even have online courses you can take to learn more from them.  If you couldn’t participate in this year’s summit or you want to continue the learning you started at the summit, I’m linking to places you can learn more from each presenter over at buildmathminds.com/71.  And I’m also sharing the dates for the 2021 Virtual Math Summit.

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 70.  Today we are Implementing Ideas from the Virtual Math Summit.

This past week was the Virtual Math Summit!!!! I wanted to let you all know that we recently extended the free access period to August 12th due to the storms here in the United States and so many people who are without power. You can watch all the sessions over at the Virtual Math Summit main page buildmathminds.com/vms20, but I’ll also link it up over at the show notes for today’s episode at buildmathminds.com/70. 

At the very end of these implementation chats, I asked each educator to share ONE THING that they think is very important to them that it gets implemented this year and in today’s episode I’m going to share the clips of them talking about their ONE THING.  Okay, let’s get into it.

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 69.  Today we are talking about The 2020 Virtual Math Summit.

This week is the Virtual Math Summit!!!!  In fact for those of you who are registered you will be sent a link to the pre-conference session that gets released tonight with Sheldon Eakins.  If you aren’t registered you better get on over to buildmathminds.com/virtual-math-summit now because time is running out to get FREE access to these amazing math presentations.  I’ll also link to the registration over at buildmathminds.com/69.

So to celebrate the 4th annual Virtual Math Summit I thought I’d take a clip from each of the 24 presentations so that you can get a preview of each session.