The Build Math Minds Podcast
Hosted by Christina Tondevold and Christina · Christina Tondevold
4.7from 142 ratings
- 245
- Episodes
- 77
- Transcribed
- 142
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About The Build Math Minds Podcast
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.
- Publisher
- Christina Tondevold
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
77 of 245 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Stop Starting Fractions With Sets
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Struggling Math Students: What Elementary Teachers Don't Know About Working Memory (& other areas) with Becky Lord and Christina Tondevold
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Special Edition Episode - Duolingo Math: What Elementary Teachers Need to Know
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Stop Starting Fractions With Sets
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The trouble is kids naturally don't pay attention to the whole. They pay attention to the pieces. Now, the visual of part of a set makes that even harder. So like when you show three red counters out of four total counters and kids see it as three out of four. Well, now you add another set of three red out of four. When you put them together, What do you have? You got six eights because you have just created a brand new whole of eight. The whole actually changed and nobody noticed, especially your students. That's the thinking that kids carry into three plus four plus three, four plus four. Now, we need to keep the whole the same. […]
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- Becky Lord
- Zak
- Mike
- Steve Wyborney
- Dr Nicki Newton
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 136 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 6 ratings
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- 83
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 95
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Christina Tondevold and Christina host the show. Published by Christina Tondevold.
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