Episode 60 - Building Self-Reliance in Math

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 60.  Today is an interview with 3rd grade teacher Cathy Palkovic and a theme of our conversation is about Building Self-Reliance in Math.   In this interview with Cathy we get into all kinds of things from what her distance learning looks like to Math Running Records to how her 3rd graders solved 898x52 without any guidance from her.  We discuss how she has helped her students build their self-reliance through things she has learned and one of the things that has helped her along her math teaching journey is my Number Sense course.  The registration for the courses are now open from May 1-14 you can go to buildmathminds.com/enroll to join a course but I’ll also link to the course and all the other resources Cathy mentions over at the show notes page buildmathminds.com/60

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.