The Educators MathCast

What do we do with students after grades are in? Zak and Mike have some ideas on how to keep students engaged in the final days of the school year.

Jody and Chepina join Zak to talk about how important it is to encourage curiosity in the math classroom.

In this episode of The Educator’s MathCast, Zak and Mike take on a question families ask all the time: what should math at home actually look like? Building on their earlier conversation about homework, they explore how meaningful math experiences outside of school can be simple, natural, and most importantly, joyful.

Friend of the show Marta Garcia joins Zak to talk about how math leaders have a mission to support students where there are in their learning journey.

Zak and Mike get real with their opinions on the value of sending kids home with math homework.

Zak and Kaneka chat about the importance of curiosity and asking questions when working with students and teachers.

In this episode, Mike and Zak reflect on growing up as Gen X kids, from Oregon Trail and mixtapes to encyclopedias and memorized phone numbers. Those experiences lead us into a bigger conversation about effortful learning and what it takes for ideas to really stick in math classrooms.

We talk about curiosity, productive struggle, and the importance of creating math classrooms where students are willing to put in the work of thinking. In a world where answers are always a click away, how do we design learning that helps students build understanding that lasts?

Liesl McConchie and Zak talk about how the brain learns and ways to leverage that with students in the math classroom.

Are you using Large Language Models (LLMs) in your work as a math professional? It's a powerful tool, but that doesn't mean there aren't huge pitfalls to avoid. In this episode of the Educators MathCast Mike and Zak talk about ways they use AI to work more efficiently, shortcomings of the technology they've come across, and major drawbacks they see playing out in the field.

Can you spot AI when you see it? Am I an AI? Bleep bloop bleep?

Brittany Hege from Mix & Math joins Zak on this episode of the Educators MathCast.