Episode 43 - Open Middle Math

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 43.  Today we are taking a look at Open Middle Math. This week’s book is from a friend of mine, Robert Kaplinsky.  I’ve known Robert for years but I’m not sharing this book just because he is a friend.  I only share things that I love and I love Open Middle. While I’ve known Robert for years and I’ve known about and used Open Middle, I’ve never known the backstory of how they started.  So to introduce you to Open Middle problems I thought I’d read a section from Robert’s book, Open Middle Math, that gives the background of Open Middle problems.  Get all the info here: buildmathminds.com/43

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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.