Episode 83 - Inspection-Worthy Mistakes

Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 83.  Today we are looking at Inspection-Worthy Mistakes. When I was in school, math mistakes were met with a big ‘ol red mark and nothing more.  Did I learn anything from those red marks?  I learned it was a wrong answer.  But wrong answers can be a great jumping off point to help students learn so much more than that. However, you don’t want to stop & do a whole group discussion every time you see a student with a wrong answer, so when should you?  In this week’s podcast, I’m sharing a few ideas from the article Inspection-Worthy Mistakes by Angela T. Barlow, et al. Get links over at buildmathminds.com/83

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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.