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The Build Math Minds Podcast — 101 episodes
Episode 226 - What the Research ACTUALLY Says About Helping Struggling Math Students
Episode 225 - The New Math Fluency Standards That Were 26 Years in the Making
Episode 224 - Mathematical Residue - What Stuck After the Virtual Math Summit
Episode 223 - You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone
Episode 222 - Hands-On Math Isn't Just for the Little Kids
Episode 221 - Building Thinking Classrooms: The ONE Thing Math Coaches Need to Focus On
Episode 220 - The Math Fluency Trap: Why Flexibility Isn't Enough
Episode 219 - What 13 AI Lessons Taught Me About Teaching Math
Episode 218 - 3 Coaching Strategies That Actually Work
Episode 217 - The Science of Math
Episode 216 - Why Math Practice Fails (And the Simple Fix)
Episode 215 - Why Balance in Teaching Isn't What You Think
Episode 214 - The REAL Purpose of Teaching Math (And Why It Matters More Than Ever)
Episode 213 - Seeing Multiplication - How Subitizing Builds Fact Fluency Through Relationships
Episode 212 - Subitizing With Fractions
Episode 211 - Building Number Sense Without Adding to Your Plate
Episode 210 - Why Good Activities Aren't Enough - The Missing Piece That Makes Number Sense Work
Episode 209 - The Power of Integration - Why Teaching Number Sense Concepts Together Accelerates Learning
Episode 208 - The Number Relationships That Transform Math Understanding
Episode 207 - The Math Foundations - What Elementary Students Need Before You Ever Have Them Operate with Numbers
Episode 206 - 1% Better - The 4-Minute Daily Math Difference
Episode 205 - Stop Coaching Everyone: Use the 80/20 Rule to Transform Your Elementary Math Coaching
Episode 204 -Timed Math Activities…Good or Bad?
Episode 203 - Number Sense with Christina Tondevold and Mona Iehl
Episode 202 - Going Beyond the Task When Building Thinking Classrooms with the Special Guests in Our Book Study
Episode 201 - Our Summer Book Study - Exploring Tasks for the Thinking Classroom
Episode 200 - The Three Essential Math Experiences: Number Routines, Word Problems, and Games
Episode 199 - The Many Ways to Show Numbers with Fingers
Episode 198 - Tips for Using Games to Build Math Minds with Dan Finkel
Episode 197 - Upleveling Missing Part Games
Episode 196 - Repackaging Style Word Problems: Transforming Missing Part Word Problems
Episode 195 - Upleveling Missing Part Activities to Build Deeper Mathematical Thinking
Episode 194 - The Truth About Mental Math - It's Not Just In Your Head
Episode 193 - Beyond the Template - Making the Lesh Translation Model Meaningful
Episode 192 - A Math Task All Teachers Should be Doing
Episode 191 - Math Teaching Strategies: Highlights from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit Live Sessions
Episode 189 - Making Math Irresistible: 4 Expert Strategies for Student Engagement in Elementary Math
Episode 188 - The Science of Making Math Stick: Using Brain Research to Combat the NAEP Score Crisis
Episode 187 - Problem Solving Success: 3 Experts' Ideas from the 2025 Virtual Math Summit
Episode 186 - Live Elementary Math PD Sessions You Won't Want to Miss: 2025 Virtual Math Summit Preview
Episode 185 - Tasks for Building Thinking Classrooms - Virtual Math Summit 2025 preview
Episode 184 - Don't Discount the Use of Games in Your Classroom
Episode 183 - The Count - Uncovering Mathematical Structure in Elementary Classrooms
Episode 182 - Visual Patterns: The Secret Weapon for Teaching The Math Practices
Episode 181 - Exploring Patterns Through Number Routines
Episode 180 - Leaping Numbers: a great math activity for exploring patterns
Episode 179 - A Math Hack That Isn't a Hack
Episode 178 - Students who struggle with Less Than problems
Episode 177 - Math Misconceptions
Episode 176 - Avoiding the Trap of Algorithms
Episode 175 - Always Building Relationships - Rounding Numbers Series
Episode 174 - Helping Students Understand Magnitude of Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series
Episode 173 - Using Number Lines to Round Numbers - Rounding Numbers Series
Episode 172 - Is Emotional Teaching a Thing???
Episode 171 - Summer Book Study for Elementary Math Educators
Episode 170 - The Importance of Play
Episode 169 - Math Fluency Through Flexibility
Episode 168 - Use Math Manipulatives - No Matter The Age
Episode 167 - Mental Math does NOT mean doing it in your head
Episode 166 - A Child's Progression When Grouping to Count Items
Episode 165 - Geometry in PreK-2 is more than just knowing names of shapes
Episode 164 - The Power of Using Inverse Operations to Subtract & Divide
Episode 163 - Helping Your Students to Be a Successful Student
Episode 162 - Approximation, Precision, & Accuracy in Measurement
Episode 161 - A candy bar is better than a pie…when it comes to fractions
Episode 160 - Tips for Getting Kids to Talk in Math Class
Episode 159 - The Number Strings Queens
Episode 158 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Preventing Teacher Burnout
Episode 157 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Challenges and Benefits of Building Kids' Thinking
Episode 156 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Things to Think About When Doing Number Routines
Episode 155 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Teaching Math with Newcomers in Mind
Episode 154 - Virtual Math Summit Preview: Helping Students Understand Multiplication
Episode 153: Virtual Math Summit Preview: Tips for Creating Student-Centered Classrooms
Episode 152 - Why don't you talk about Time & Money?
Episode 151 - What Do Students Need to Know About Division?
Episode 150 - A Quick Math Story Problem Activity
Episode 149 - Things to Say Instead of IDK
Episode 148 - Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?
Episode 147 - Practice Makes Permanent
Episode 146 - Standard Algorithms Compared to Computational Strategies
Episode 145 - Math Textbooks Have the Teaching of Fluency All Wrong
Episode 144 - What is Computational Fluency?
Episode 143 - Summer Reading List for Elementary Math Teachers 2022
Episode 142 - Nothing Lasts Forever
Episode 141 - Get The Most Out of Math Games
Episode 140 - Alternatives to Math Tests
Episode 139 - Should We Stop Giving Tests in Math?
Episode 138 - More Than a Test
Episode 137 - Math in Children's Literature
Episode 136 - Problem Solving In Math
Episode 135 - The Tip of the Iceberg
Episode 134 - Pencil or Pen?
Episode 132 - The Connecting Pillar with Stacey Ellis, Matt Halpern, & Dawn Dibley
Episode 131 - Observing Math Understanding with Michelle Chu & Kristen Emmel
Episode 130 - Building our Understanding with Dr. Ange Rogers, Duane Habecker, & Shannon McCartney
Episode 129 - Taking it a Step Further with Fractions & Subitizing
Episode 128 - Doing Things Differently with Rosalba Serrano, Marian Small & Shannon Kiebler
Episode 127 - Thinking vs Mimicking
Episode 126 - Powerful Moments in Math Class with Mike Flynn
Episdoe 125 - Less Expectation, More Appreciation
Episode 124 - Math problems with more than one answer (Part 3)