Episode 58 - Meaningful Mathematics

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 58.  Today we are discussing Meaningful Mathematics. In today’s episode I’d like to read a portion of an article that comes from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.  Normally I only link to articles on NCTM’s site that you can access for free. This article is not available for free but this article is just too good not to talk about...plus NCTM is doing a free trial of their membership right now.  I’ll link to that free trial over at buildmathminds.com/58.  When you do the free trial make sure to select the option to receive access to the online archive of the Teaching Children’s Mathematics journal, that’s the journal that this article was published in. On pages 312-313, William Brownell writes...

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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.