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The Build Math Minds Podcast

The Build Math Minds podcast is for my fellow Recovering Traditionalists out there. If you don’t know whether or not you are a Recovering Traditionalist, here’s how I define us. We are math educators ... Read more

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Episode 148 - Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?

Episode 148 - Why Is Understanding Fractions So Hard?

19 Jun 2022

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Episode 147 - Practice Makes Permanent

Episode 147 - Practice Makes Permanent

Here in the United States, it is the end of the school year and teachers are contemplating what work they should send ho... Read more

12 Jun 2022

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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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