Building Math Professional Development Teachers Want
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Making Math Moments That Matter
Wondering how to create a classroom culture where students don't want to stop exploring mathematics when the bell rings? Kyle Pearce from TapIntoTeenMinds.com and Jon Orr from MrOrr-IsAGeek....
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20 of 507 episodesMona Iehl: Building Problem Solvers With the Curriculum You Have
K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instruction...
Are You Setting The Wrong Math Improvement Goals?
K-12 Math Leaders: Download our free Math Coherence Compass to help your teammates, system leaders, and educators create aligned instruction...
Sue Looney: Using Stories to Build Resilient Problem Solvers
Jon Orr and Sue Looney preview her Make Math Moments Virtual Summit session and share how stories, memorable characters, and a four-step sto...
How to Build Teacher “Buy-In” for Math Improvement
Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman explore teacher buy-in and resistance in math PD, and how the Results Pyramid helps leaders create the experiences...
Dr. Nicki Newton: Rethinking Math Fact Fluency.
What does fact fluency actually mean in your school? If you asked five teachers, would you get five different answers? K-12 Math Leaders: Do...
Is Productive Struggle One Of Your Math Classroom Pillars? Should It Be?
What do you fundamentally believe about how students learn mathematics? More importantly, do the everyday experiences in your classroom actu...
Graham Fletcher: Are We Making Math More Disjointed Than It Needs to Be?
Monday is make a ten. Tuesday is doubles. Wednesday is doubles plus one. Add a completely different context each day, and we may be making i...
From Classroom Observations to a Focused Math Improvement Plan
Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman unpack a three-day school visit and share how a K–12 team used a Math Coherence Compass, classroom observations, f...
Zak Champagne: Creating Curious Kids in the Math Classroom
Jon Orr interviews Zak Champagne, author of Curious Kids in the Math Classroom, about practical ways to foster student curiosity through cla...
Math Wars: Why Conceptual vs. Procedural Is the Wrong Math Debate
The math wars often focus on conceptual understanding versus traditional algorithms. Jon Orr and Yvette Lehman explore a deeper challenge: u...
Peter Liljedahl: Can We Teach Students to Be Resilient?
We want students to be curious, persistent, and resilient problem solvers. But what if those aren't qualities students simply bring into our...
How to Spiral Your Math Curriculum: A Better Alternative to Cramming and Reteaching
Ever reach the end of the semester only to feel like you're reteaching everything from September? If students learned it once but can't retr...
Rewarding Student Thinking: An Interview with Dr. Pamela Seda
We say we want students to become critical thinkers, problem solvers, and mathematical reasoners. But do the systems in our classrooms and s...
How Strong Math Teams Turn Decisions Into Action
Your math team meets regularly. You strategize, make decisions, and talk about improving mathematics. But when everyone leaves the meeting,...
Why Do Students Struggle With Math Word Problems and What To Do About It
We’ve all heard it: “My students can do the math—they just struggle with word problems.” They can perform the calculation when it’s presente...
Do This To Start Sustainable Math Improvement in Your School or District
If you could wave a magic wand and walk into any math classroom five or ten years from now, what would you hope to see? What would students...
How Do You Support 30 Schools at Once as a Math Coordinator? A Math Mentoring Moment
Stepping into a new math leadership role can feel exciting and overwhelming at the same time—especially when your responsibility suddenly ex...
STOP Rushing Math Improvement: Lessons From This School District
School and district leaders often feel pressure to create widespread change as quickly as possible. But sustainable math improvement doesn't...
Why Teaching Math Is Hard—and Improving Achievement Is Even Harder
If you’ve ever wondered what to actually do during small group time in math, this episode will give you a clear and practical way to support...