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The Build Math Minds Podcast — 101 episodes

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Episode 226 - What the Research ACTUALLY Says About Helping Struggling Math Students

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Episode 225 - The New Math Fluency Standards That Were 26 Years in the Making

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Episode 224 - Mathematical Residue - What Stuck After the Virtual Math Summit

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Episode 223 - You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone

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Episode 222 - Hands-On Math Isn't Just for the Little Kids

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Episode 221 - Building Thinking Classrooms: The ONE Thing Math Coaches Need to Focus On

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Episode 220 - The Math Fluency Trap: Why Flexibility Isn't Enough

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Episode 219 - What 13 AI Lessons Taught Me About Teaching Math

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Episode 218 - 3 Coaching Strategies That Actually Work

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Episode 217 - The Science of Math

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Episode 216 - Why Math Practice Fails (And the Simple Fix)

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Episode 215 - Why Balance in Teaching Isn't What You Think

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Episode 214 - The REAL Purpose of Teaching Math (And Why It Matters More Than Ever)

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Episode 213 - Seeing Multiplication - How Subitizing Builds Fact Fluency Through Relationships

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Episode 212 - Subitizing With Fractions

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Episode 211 - Building Number Sense Without Adding to Your Plate

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Episode 210 - Why Good Activities Aren't Enough - The Missing Piece That Makes Number Sense Work

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Episode 209 - The Power of Integration - Why Teaching Number Sense Concepts Together Accelerates Learning

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Episode 208 - The Number Relationships That Transform Math Understanding

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Episode 207 - The Math Foundations - What Elementary Students Need Before You Ever Have Them Operate with Numbers

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Episode 206 - 1% Better - The 4-Minute Daily Math Difference

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Episode 205 - Stop Coaching Everyone: Use the 80/20 Rule to Transform Your Elementary Math Coaching

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Episode 204 -Timed Math Activities…Good or Bad?

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Episode 203 - Number Sense with Christina Tondevold and Mona Iehl

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Episode 202 - Going Beyond the Task When Building Thinking Classrooms with the Special Guests in Our Book Study

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Episode 201 - Our Summer Book Study - Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom

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Episode 200 - The Three Essential Math Experiences: Number Routines, Word Problems, and Games

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Episode 199 - The Many Ways to Show Numbers with Fingers

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Episode 198 - Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel

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Episode 197 - Upleveling Missing Part Games

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Episode 196 - Repackaging Style Word Problems: Transforming Missing Part Word Problems

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Episode 195 - Upleveling Missing Part Activities to Build Deeper Mathematical Thinking

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Episode 194 - The Truth About Mental Math - It's Not Just In Your Head

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Episode 193 - Beyond the Template - Making the Lesh Translation Model Meaningful

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Episode 192 - A Math Task All Teachers Should be Doing

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Episode 191 - Math Teaching Strategies: Highlights from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit Live Sessions

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Episode 189 - Making Math Irresistible: 4 Expert Strategies for Student Engagement in Elementary Math

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Episode 188 - The Science of Making Math Stick: Using Brain Research to Combat the NAEP Score Crisis

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Episode 187 - Problem Solving Success: 3 Experts' Ideas from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit

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Episode 186 - Live Elementary Math PD Sessions You Won't Want to Miss: 2025 Virtual Math Summit Preview

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Episode 185 - Tasks for Building Thinking Classrooms - Virtual Math Summit 2025 preview

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Episode 184 - Don't Discount the Use of Games in Your Classroom

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Episode 183 - The Count - Uncovering Mathematical Structure in Elementary Classrooms

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Episode 182 - Visual Patterns: The Secret Weapon for Teaching The Math Practices

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Episode 181 - Exploring Patterns Through Number Routines

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Episode 180 - Leaping Numbers: a great math activity for exploring patterns

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Episode 179 - A Math Hack That Isn't a Hack

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Episode 178 - Students who struggle with Less Than problems

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Episode 177 - Math Misconceptions

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Episode 176 - Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms

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Episode 175 - Always Building Relationships - Rounding Numbers Series

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Episode 174 - Helping Students Understand Magnitude of Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series

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Episode 173 - Using Number Lines to Round Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series

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Episode 172 - Is Emotional Teaching a Thing???

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Episode 171 - Summer Book Study for Elementary Math Educators

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Episode 170 - The Importance of Play

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Episode 169 - Math Fluency Through Flexibility

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Episode 168 - Use Math Manipulatives - No Matter The Age

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Episode 167 - Mental Math does NOT mean doing it in your head

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Episode 166 - A Child's Progression When Grouping to Count Items

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Episode 165 - Geometry in PreK-2 is more than just knowing names of shapes

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Episode 164 - The Power of Using Inverse Operations to Subtract & Divide

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Episode 163 - Helping Your Students to Be a Successful Student

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Episode 162 - Approximation, Precision, & Accuracy in Measurement

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Episode 161 - A candy bar is better than a pie…when it comes to fractions

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Episode 160 - Tips for Getting Kids to Talk in Math Class

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Episode 159 - The Number Strings Queens

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Episode 158 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Preventing Teacher Burnout

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Episode 157 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Challenges and Benefits of Building Kids' Thinking

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Episode 156 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Things to Think About When Doing Number Routines

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Episode 155 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Teaching Math with Newcomers in Mind

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Episode 154 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Helping Students Understand Multiplication

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Episode 153: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Tips for Creating Student-Centered Classrooms

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Episode 152 - Why don't you talk about Time & Money?

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Episode 151 - What Do Students Need to Know About Division?

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Episode 150 - A Quick Math Story Problem Activity

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Episode 149 - Things to Say Instead of IDK

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Episode 148 - Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?

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Episode 147 - Practice Makes Permanent

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Episode 146 - Standard Algorithms Compared to Computational Strategies

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Episode 145 - Math Textbooks Have the Teaching of Fluency All Wrong

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Episode 144 - What is Computational Fluency?

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Episode 143 - Summer Reading List for Elementary Math Teachers 2022

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Episode 142 - Nothing Lasts Forever

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Episode 141 - Get The Most Out of Math Games

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Episode 140 - Alternatives to Math Tests

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Episode 139 - Should We Stop Giving Tests in Math?

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Episode 138 - More Than a Test

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Episode 137 - Math in Children's Literature

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Episode 136 - Problem Solving In Math

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Episode 135 - The Tip of the Iceberg

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Episode 134 - Pencil or Pen?

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Episode 132 - The Connecting Pillar with Stacey Ellis, Matt Halpern, & Dawn Dibley

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Episode 131 - Observing Math Understanding with Michelle Chu & Kristen Emmel

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Episode 130 - Building our Understanding with Dr. Ange Rogers, Duane Habecker, & Shannon McCartney

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Episode 129 - Taking it a Step Further with Fractions & Subitizing

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Episode 128 - Doing Things Differently with Rosalba Serrano, Marian Small & Shannon Kiebler

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Episode 127 - Thinking vs Mimicking

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Episode 126 - Powerful Moments in Math Class with Mike Flynn

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Episdoe 125 - Less Expectation, More Appreciation

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Episode 124 - Math problems with more than one answer (Part 3)