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Episode 111 - Fluency is the By-Product of Flexibility

Episode 111 - Fluency is the By-Product of Flexibility

FromThe Build Math Minds Podcast


Episode 111 - Fluency is the By-Product of Flexibility

FromThe Build Math Minds Podcast

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Length:
5 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Typically on this podcast I share things that other people have written because I want to encourage you to go learn from the original sources that I have learned from.  But today I want to share something I wrote with you. Fluency is a big focus of mine, so much so that I have full online PD courses that I’ve created for teachers to learn how we build students’ fluency.  How we build it is actually through building students’ flexibility...that’s why I called my courses The Flexibility Formula. To help elementary educators get started down the journey of building fluency by focusing on building students’ flexibility, I created the Building Elementary Math Fluency Starter Kit.  I’d like to share a little bit from that starter kit with you today about how Fluency is the By-Product of Flexibility.  If you’d like to get the starter kit go to BuildMathMinds.com/starterkit. 
Released:
Sep 5, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.