Building Math Minds with Christina Tondevold

02/21/23 • 18 min

"The way you learn isn’t the way everyone learns." - Christina Tondevold

Today, Allison interviews Christina Tondevold from the Build Math Minds Virtual Summit, a free virtual summit from February 25th - March 6th with an incredible lineup of speakers including Jennifer-Bay Williams, Peter Liljedahl, Pam Harris, and more!

You can grab your free ticket to the summit here: https://virtualmathsummit.com/

Christina gives us a sneak peek at her top takeaways from the following sessions:

Peter Liljedahl: Building Thinking Classrooms
Pam Harris: Division that Doesn't Make Students Cry
Angela Watson: Fewer Things, Better: Making Time for What Matters Most
Rebecca Lorde: Understanding Dyscalculia and the Science of Math
Jen Hunt: Leveraging Brain-Body Connection as Math Intervention for Primary Students

Pam Harris, is a speaker at the summit, was already on the Allison Loves Math Podcast! You can listen to her interview here: https://allisonlovesmath.mykajabi.com/blog/PamHarris

Connect with Christina:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuildMathMinds
IG: @buildmathminds
TW: @BuildMathMinds

Connect with Allison:

Website: https://www.allisonlovesmath.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Allison-Dillard/author/B07PV43V59
FB: https://www.facebook.com/AllisonLovesMath
IG: @allisonlovesmath
TW: @AllisonLuvsMath

"The way you learn isn’t the way everyone learns." - Christina Tondevold

You can grab your free ticket to the summit here: https://virtualmathsummit.com/

Christina gives us a sneak peek at her top takeaways from the following sessions:

Peter Liljedahl: Building Thinking Classrooms
Pam Harris: Division that Doesn't Make Students Cry
Angela Watson: Fewer Things, Better: Making Time for What Matters Most
Rebecca Lorde: Understanding Dyscalculia and the Science of Math
Jen Hunt: Leveraging Brain-Body Connection as Math Intervention for Primary Students

Pam Harris, is a speaker at the summit, was already on the Allison Loves Math Podcast! You can listen to her interview here: https://allisonlovesmath.mykajabi.com/blog/PamHarris

Connect with Christina:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuildMathMinds
IG: @buildmathminds
TW: @BuildMathMinds

Connect with Allison:

Website: https://www.allisonlovesmath.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Allison-Dillard/author/B07PV43V59
FB: https://www.facebook.com/AllisonLovesMath
IG: @allisonlovesmath
TW: @AllisonLuvsMath

Previous Episode

Math is FigureOutAble with Pam Harris

As a young student and far too long as a young teacher, I actually bought into the myth that math was rote memorizable... I now have a different bent. - Pam Harris

Listen & Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Podcasts

Today, Allison interviews Pam Harris, the author of Building Powerful Numeracy and host of the Math is FigurOutAble Podcast. A former secondary mathematics teacher, Pam is a K-12 mathematics education consultant, a T3 (Teachers Teaching with Technology) National Instructor, and a nationally known speaker.

Pam discusses:

What is means for math to be “FigureOutAble”
How algorithms do (and do not) play a role in math classrooms
How to deal with pushback from teachers to cling to teaching algorithms first
A fun routine for teaching numeracy with ten partners and hundred partners

Connect with Pam:

Website - https://www.mathisfigureoutable.com/
Math is FigureOutAble Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/math-is-figure-out-able-with-pam-harris/id1518815325
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8CDrD-XCeQHzekywDKxreg
Instagram - @pamharris_math
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/457333671628039
Twitter - @pwharris

Find the Allison Loves Math playlists at https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/blog, including

Playlist for Elementary School Teachers
Playlist for High School Teachers and College Professors
Playlist for Parents

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Next Episode

Helping Students to Discover a Reason to Love Math Again with Professor Prime

A wildly inspiring YouTube creator, Professor Prime passionately shares how to teach your students that math is in everything. He also discusses healthy work boundaries, having empathy for students who struggle with math, and thinking of students who don’t like math as students who are looking for a reason to love math.

A math educator on a mission to build a world that sees math everywhere, Professor Prime has 2000+ YouTube videos on everything from his experience teaching math to math and Epic Games, math and Star Wars, math and Pokemon, and math and art.

Teacher Resource!! Professor Prime's playlists Math is Awesome! Here’s Why! (49 videos) and Everything is Super Mathematical!!!! (32 videos) contain quick videos under 1 minute that are perfect to play at the start of your math class.

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