Episode 116 - Stop Teaching Strategies

I want all kids to have different strategies at their disposal to solve math problems.  However, the way our textbooks have us teach them to kids is overwhelming and confuses kids.  This episode is a clip from a webinar I did recently about The Missing Piece to Elementary Fact Fluency and part of the issue is that we are directly teaching kids so many strategies when instead we need to help kids develop them on their own. If you want help with how to do that in your classroom, come join my online PD courses: The Flexibility Formula K-2nd https://buildmathminds.com/flexibility-formula-prek-2nd/  The Flexibility Formula 3rd-5th https://buildmathminds.com/flexibility-formula-3rd-5th/ 

Om Podcasten

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 who used to teach math the traditional way. Flip lesson by lesson in the textbook, directly teaching step-by-step how to solve math problems. But now, we are working to change that to a style of teaching math that is fun and meets our students where they are at, not just teaching what comes next in the textbook. We want to encourage our students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and lovers of mathematics..we are wanting to build our students math minds and not just create calculators. If that is you, then this podcast is for you.