Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast
Our podcast episodes reveal powerful stories, strategies and “secrets” for building a math classroom that you’ve always wanted.
About The Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast
Make Math Moments is on a mission to provide an opportunity for all mathematics educators around the world to access professional learning opportunities that will elevate their teaching practice and promote an equitable learning experience for all students. We strive to provide all educators with the opportunity to spark their learning through the Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast as a means to inspire the exploration of new pedagogical practices and to seek out opportunities to deepen their own mathematical content knowledge.
The goal of the podcast is to help more mathematics educators to create a classroom culture where students don’t want to stop exploring mathematics when the bell rings by interviewing featured guests such as Jo Boaler, Peter Liljedahl, Sunil Singh, Dan Meyer, Nicki Newton, John Hattie, inviting mathematics teachers on to the show to engage in “Mentoring Moment” episodes where we coach them through a current math classroom struggle, or to simply riff on a specific big idea, tool or strategy for simply.
We strive to positively impact the K-12 mathematical experience for over 1 million students by helping mathematics teachers and mathematics district leaders to strengthen the six (6) key parts of an effective mathematics program.
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Episode Show Notes and Resource Pages
A new episode is released each and every Monday morning at 5:30 AM Eastern / 2:30 AM Pacific Time with full show notes to summarize the episode, complete transcripts and links to resources relevant to that specific episode.
Episode #123 : Growing Your Assessment Practices – A Where Are They Now Math Mentoring Moment with Nathan Vaillancourt
Episode #122: Building Flexibility: An Interview With Michelle Rinehart
Episode #121: Leading Equity – An Interview with Sheldon Eakins
Episode #120: How Do I Engage My Students When The Math Is Abstract? – A Math Mentoring Moment
Episode #53 – Open Middle Math: An Interview with Robert Kaplinsky
Episode #119: Pre-Service Parallels: An Interview with Erica Heinzman
Episode #118: Two Formative Assessment Techniques You Should Stop Using!
Episode #117: How To Engage Students While Teaching Remotely – A Math Mentoring Moment
Episode #116: How to Use Mindfulness to Change Trajectories – An Interview with Christina Lincoln-Moore
Episode #115: What Routines Make Your Day? – An Episode From the Math Moment Community!
Episode #114: How Do I Catch Up My Absent Students Without Jumping To The Procedure? – A Math Mentoring Moment
Episode #113: Fluency Doesn’t Just Happen – An Interview with Ann Elise Record
Episode #112: There’s No Wild 3 Times 5’s Running Around – Where Are They Now Math Mentoring Moment
Episode #111: How To Make Math Moments – A Discussion on the Unprofessional Development Podcast
Episode #110: Show Your Becauses – An Interview with Nat Banting
Episode #109: Transitioning From Elementary to Middle School – A Math Mentoring Moment
Episode #108: How to Overcome “Dead Air Syndrome” Teaching Over Zoom – A Math Mentoring Moment
Episode #107: How To Believe In Your Math Educators – An Interview with Mary Kemper
Insightful Conversations with Mathematics Leaders and Mathematics Classroom Teachers
We host some of the most influential minds in education…
Discussions With Purpose
How do I teach tasks & cover the curriculum?
How do I coach teachers for effective change?
Why mindfulness is needed in mathematics classes.
How can I help students build fact fluency?
How do I spark curiosity & fuel sense making with abstract concepts?
How can I engage students while teaching strictly online?
How can I manage giving feedback in a reasonable amount of time?
How parental mindset is key in a student’s progression of mathematics.
How do I build in purposeful practice into my lesson plan?
At Make Math Moments, we believe that an effective mathematics program must be cultivated and fostered like a strong, healthy and balanced tree.
When you know how to strengthen the 6 parts of an effective math program, your impact will grow far and wide.
Leadership and Classroom Pillars
Trunk
Content Knowledge & Mathematical Proficiency
Roots
Help your educators in developing their mathematical proficiency.
Mindset & Beliefs
Soil, Sunlight, Water
Shift educator mindsets and beliefs from deficit thinking towards asset thinking.
Professional Development Structure
Limbs
Create a sustainable, supportive, and actionable professional development structure that creates change.
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Branches
Train & Support your educators on effective use of the 8 effective teaching practices.
Lessons, Tools, Resources and Environment
Leaves
Utilize resources that designed to spark curiosity as well as fuel sense making in students.
Your report will show you where your mathematics improvement plan is performing well, where you need to improve, and give you a customized plan to strengthen all 6 parts of your program.