Episode 42 - Making the Case for Play in the Classroom

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 42.  Today we are Making the Case for Play in the Classroom. As I’m recording this it’s the holiday season and it’s the time of year when teachers break out all kinds of fun activities and just let the kids play.  I mean, how else are you going to survive that last week before break, right!?!? So with all this play happening, I pulled out the book Exploring Mathematics Through Play in the Early Childhood Classroom by Amy Noelle Parks. Now, even though this book is full of ideas for the early childhood classroom she makes some great points that apply no matter what grade level you work with. Get all the info here: buildmathminds.com/42

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.