Stop Using Circles When Teaching Fractions

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Candy Bars are better than Pies… when it comes to Fractions. “For percentages and decimals in general, the bar or the number line are the most obvious representational form to choose.” Transcript Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode...

Number Strings

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Some people call them number talks, but showing your students a series of problems or visuals during math and investigating the relationship between those problems is actually doing Number Strings. I’m Christina Tondevold, The Recovering Traditionalist, and today...

Number of the Day Activities

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Number of the day worksheets or activities are very popular in elementary schools, however many of them are boring, take up a lot of time, and don’t build powerful mathematical ideas during that time.  They are typically focused on number skills. For instance, one of...

How to Build Fraction Sense

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Today we’re going to talk about How to Build Fraction Sense in the Elementary Grades.  Operating with fractions is what most textbooks focus on.  But in order to understand the operations, we first need to develop fraction sense. I’m Christina Tondevold, The...

The 2022 Virtual Math Summit

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The 2022 Virtual Math Summit is sooner than you think! I’ve always done the Virtual Math Summit in August but in 2022 I’m going to switch it up so teachers can use what they learn on Monday. The Virtual Math Summit is actually right around the corner on...

Cultivating Positive Student Identities

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What if every student had a positive self identity? What if we thought of every student and talked about every student in a positive way? In this video, I have a special guest because the questions I asked above are things I’m honestly not that good at doing or know...

Does Multiplication mean ‘Groups of’?

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Every month inside the Build Math Minds Facebook group, we watch out for a hot topic. Something that sparked a lively debate, a lot of comments, some unsureness or anything that might be interesting to dive a little bit deeper into. Our hot topic this month inside of...