What Is The Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast?

In a nutshell, we want The Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast to be a resource that all educators who teach mathematics can turn to in order to learn from others in the mathematics education space. Each episode typically involves Jon and I conversing about ideas in math teaching and learning, Math Mentoring Moments with teachers who join us on the show for a coaching call, and interviews with influencers in the mathematics education space.

We would love to explore your story in mathematics education, the challenges you may have experienced along the way, and the current projects you are currently working on to raise awareness of all the great things happening with our Math Moment Maker Community of listeners. 

If you want to get more of a feel for the style of the show, you can listen to previous episodes right from this webpage or, take them with you by listening in on all common podcast platforms such as iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify.

Interview Structure

Each interview is intended to be a free-flowing conversation.

However, early in the call we like to help listeners get a better sense of your story. This will include these three questions early on in the conversation:

• Tell us a little about yourself. What’s your math teaching story/journey?
• What inspired you to become a math educator / researcher / involved in mathematics education?
• When you think back to your own education experience, what memorable math moment has stuck with you?

Framing how you might respond to each of those three (3) questions ahead of time can be helpful for making things flow into the next section of the chat.

We then typically send you some high-level questions related to your specific work ahead of time. The conversation will dictate which pre-planned questions we discuss in the interview as well as any new questions that might arise. 

Share Your Current Work

Consider your work and what might provide value for the Math Moment Maker Community: 

• Are you currently promoting a book?
• Releasing a new podcast?
• Publishing a new research paper?
• Launching a new project or tool?
• Something else?

Be ready to share details with our audience (i.e.: website url, social media handle(s), etc.) to ensure they know where they can learn more about you and your work. 

If interested, we would be happy to run a contest for a copy of your new book, resource, tool, etc.

Just let us know! 

Interview Logistical Details

To ensure you have what you need to connect with us for an interview, we’ve created a list of the most important details:

• The interview will be audio only conducted via a web based tool called Zencastr via a link we would send in a follow-up email.
• The total time commitment would be approximately one hour.
• Secure yourself a microphone that connects to your computer. You don’t need to buy one at all if you have earbuds with a microphone attached. (For example I use the pair of earbuds that came with my iPhone). Note that sometimes bluetooth headsets can cause problems with delay, sound quality, etc. We’d recommend getting “wired in” if you can.  
• Try to avoid using a tablet or Chromebook for this call. Our recording software isn’t a big fan of them and does much better with a desktop or laptop as the audio is recorded locally in your own computer web browser.
• Ensure that at the time of the call you are connected to high speed internet and using an updated web browser like Google Chrome or Firefox. Sadly, Internet Explorer and Safari don’t play well with our recording software.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if any of this is unclear or if you have additional questions about compatible technology. 

We’d love to help!

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