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Making Math Moments That Matter

Helping you transform your K-12 math lesson plans by building confidence in effective teaching practices, guiding you to transform your math curriculum, and inspiring classroom strategies to engage all students.

As a teacher are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans where students don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings?

As a mathematics coordinator or leader are you wondering how to support teachers when implementing engaging math lessons that fuel student sense making?

Over the last 19 years, Kyle and Jon, the founders of MakeMathMoments.com have been engaging students, teachers, and district program leaders with effective mathematics pedagogy, accessible resources, and inspiring learning environments in K-12 math classrooms.

Now, in this podcast they coach you – K-12 classroom teachers and district leaders of mathematics through a 6 step plan that cultivates and fosters your mathematics program like a strong, healthy and balanced tree.

If you master the 6 parts of an effective mathematics program, the impact you have on students or teachers will grow and reach far and wide.

Every week, you’ll hear insight from practicing classroom teachers and leaders in math education so you’ll get the feedback, guidance, and fresh ideas you need to stop feeling overwhelmed, gain back your confidence, and inspire the students and fellow teachers you serve to enjoy the beauty of mathematics once again.

Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180

Copyright: © 2024 Making Math Moments That Matter

Latest Episodes:

How to Use Mindfulness to Change Trajectories - An Interview with Christina Lincoln-Moore Feb 15, 2021

Show notes

Christina Lincoln-Moore an innovative Constructivist educational leader who is tenacious and profoundly dedicated to mindful project-based learning to engender formidable mathematics identities.

She is currently an Assistant Principal as well as a featured speaker focused on the humanization of mathematics for traditionally marginalized students.

Her professional presentations include the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and California Mathematics Council. Christina serves as the State Secretary for the California Mathematics Council (CMC) and Equity, Access, and Empowerment Chairperson of the California Mathematics Council: Southern Section (CMCS). Mrs. Lincoln-Moore is the Founder of Talk Number 2 Me™ Mathematics Consulting.

We chat with Christina today about important aspects of math class that you won’t want to tune out.

You’ll Learn:

Why mindfulness is needed in mathematics classes.
How to be a bucket-filler for your students and for yourself.
How to be a daring leader who values identity and mindfulness.

Resources:

Christina’s Website → www.Talknumber2me.com

Cathy Fosnot Episode: 24

Francis Su’s Episode 82

Francis Su’s Book: Mathematics For Human Flourishing

Brene Brown’s Book: Dare To Lead

How to Start The School Year Off Right

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

How to Be an Antiracist

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices

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Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

What Routines Make Your Day? - An Episode From the Math Moment Community! Feb 08, 2021

Show notes

In this episode we hear from the members of the Math Moment Maker Community. Numerous educators share daily routines that we teachers use to keep us healthy, loving our jobs, or frankly just keep us sane in this crazy time.

You’ll hear about morning routines to kick start their day; routines to use in the classroom to spark discussion and thinking; and routines that end those tiring days!

You’ll Learn:

Daily routines that we teachers use to keep us healthy, loving our jobs, or frankly just keep us sane in this crazy time.

Resources:

Miracle Morning Book

Atomic Habits Book

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

How Do I Catch Up My Absent Students Without Jumping To The Procedure? - A Math Mentoring Moment Feb 01, 2021

Show notes

Today we speak with Adrianne Burns - a middle school math coach and interventionist from Wisconsin. During our chat with Adrianne, we discuss a challenge that is on her might right now and we’re sure is on yours too! What issue are we talking about? Well, that HUGE issue of student absenteeism and what we can do to help students who’ve missed that problem-based lesson that sparked curiosity and fueled the sense making in the rest of your students.

This is another Math Mentoring Moment episode where we talk with a member of the Math Moment Maker Community who is working through struggles and together we brainstorm possible next steps and strategies to overcome them.

You’ll Learn:

How we can avoid handing students formulas and procedures after their return from an absence.
How can we stretch context so that we can streamline a unit.
How to use purposeful questioning when students miss class.

Resources:

How To Make Math Moments From A Distance [BLOG]
Make Math Moments Academy [PD Membership]
Simon Greg’s Cuisenaire Rod Videos [VIDEOS]
Mark Chubb’s Cuisenaire Rod resources [BLOG]
Fry’s Bank [Dan Meyer 3 Act Task]
Make Math Moments Problem Based Units and Lessons

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

Fluency Doesn’t Just Happen - An Interview with Ann Elise Record Jan 25, 2021

Show notes

Today we speak with Ann Elise Record. Ann Elise is a seasoned educator with a career spanning over two decades of elementary classroom experience. These days she’s a K-5 math coach who works with districts on developing strategies to increase students’ fact fluency as well as how to use manipulatives in the classroom.

Stick around as we’ll discuss effective strategies to help children build their fact fluency; how to help students with the progression from additive thinking to multiplicative thinking; and, how can we help students with concepts that hold them back from their learning.

You’ll Learn:

Effective strategies to help children build their fact fluency;
How to help students with the progression from additive thinking to multiplicative thinking; and,
How can we help students with concepts that hold them back from their learning.

Resources:

Running Record Facebook group.

Learningtrajectories.org

www.mathrunningrecords.com

Anneliserecord.com

Elementary Math with Ann Elise Facebook Group

The Acquisition of Addition and Subtraction Concepts in Grades One through Three

Padlet for the Math Running Records group with fluency resources is www.tinyurl.com/MathRR

Padlet specifically for parents (which includes a link to Math Before Bed!) is www.tinyurl.com/RecordParents

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Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

There’s No Wild 3 Times 5’s Running Around - Where Are They Now Math Mentoring Moment Jan 18, 2021

Show notes

In another “Where are they now?” episode series we bring back on 3rd grade teacher Bill Zbozny Del Percio from Pittsburgh. Bill’s back to talk about the changes he made in how he managed student learning with trying problem based tasks. He also chats with us about how he can embed the math process standards/expectations into his daily routines.

This is another Math Mentoring Moment episode where we talk with a member of the Math Moment Maker Community who is working through struggles and together we brainstorm possible next steps and strategies to overcome them.

You’ll Learn:

How to paint a picture of what you value in learning for your students;
How to use purposeful questions to elicit thinking in your students;
How to balance helping students with too much help.
The importance of learning mathematics through context instead of through “bare” or “naked” problems;
Building the Standards for Mathematical Practice (CCSS) or “Process Expectations” (Ontario) into your math class;
How we can connect the Practice Standards to our formative and summative assessment practices; and,
How to hold yourself accountable for your own math pedagogical and content knowledge growth.

Resources:

Math Practice Standards

http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Practice/

Process Expectations →

https://www.ontario.ca/page/new-math-curriculum-grades-1-8

Bill’s first episode

https://makemathmoments.com/episode23/

Episode 44 with Christina Tondevold

https://makemathmoments.com/episode44/

Make Math Moments Academy

https://makemathmoments.com/academy

Wooly Worm Race: Fractions 6-Day Unit of Study

https://makemathmoments.com/wooly

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

How To Make Math Moments - A Discussion on the Unprofessional Development Podcast Jan 11, 2021

Show notes

Jon and Kyle were on the Unprofessional Development Podcast with Tudisco and Mealy discussing how to make math moments that matter. This episode is a rebroadcast of that show.

You’ll Learn:

How to Make Math Moments That Matter;
What teachers can do to engage their students;
What techniques can teachers use to fuel sense making in their students.

Resources:

The Unprofessional Development Podcast

Original broadcast (https://unpro.podbean.com/e/making-math-moments-unprofessional/)

The Make Math Moments Online Workshop

The Make Math Moments Academy

https://makemathmoments.com/tasks

https://makemathmoments.com/

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

Show Your Becauses - An Interview with Nat Banting Jan 04, 2021

Show notes

Today we speak with Nat Banting, from Saskatoon Saskatchewan! Nat is a high school math teacher turned pre-service instructor who’s created amazing free resources like Fractiontalks.com and MenuMath. Nat was also the winner of 2019 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching awarded by the National Museum of Mathematics (@MoMath1) in New York.

In our rich discussion you’ll learn how creating limitations and constraints can drive good learning; how you can spark discussions and deep thinking around fractions; and how to spark curiosity and fuel sense-making with abstract concepts.

You’ll Learn:

How creating limitations and constraints can drive good learning.
How to spark discussions around fractions.
How to spark curiosity & fuel sense making with abstract concepts.

Resources:

Nat Banting’s Website

FractionTalks.com

Nat’s Menu Math Post

Fraction Talk War

The Art of Problem Posing

Register for the Tortoise & Hare Webinar

Wooly Worm Race [Fractions 6-Day Unit of Study]

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

#109: Transitioning From Elementary to Middle School - A Math Mentoring Moment Dec 28, 2020

Show notes

Today we speak with Shawn Seeley from the Tahoma School District. Shawn is seeking advice on transitioning from his 4th grade class into teaching middle school math at a new school all while teaching 100% remotely. Whew, that’s a lot of changes to start his school year.

This is another Math Mentoring Moment episode where we talk with a member of the Math Moment Maker Community who is working through struggles and together we brainstorm possible next steps and strategies to overcome them.

You’ll Learn:

How to transition from teaching elementary to teaching middle school.
What do I value in my classroom and can I share that with my students.
How to start the school year as a new teacher.
What my lessons should look like when teaching online.

Resources:

College Preparatory Mathematics (CPM) [Curriculum]
How To Make Math Moments From A Distance [Complete Guide]
Exploding Dots [Resource]
Dan Meyer & 3 Act Math [Episode #89]
The Concept Holding Your Students Back [Proportional Reasoning Course]
Wooly Worm Race [Fractions 6-Day Unit of Study]

REGISTER FOR OUR UPCOMING WEBINAR [Live: January 12th, 2021]

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

#108: How to Overcome “Dead Air Syndrome” Teaching Over Zoom - A Math Mentoring Moment Dec 21, 2020

Show notes

In this Math Mentoring Moment episode we speak with Marnie Geltman; a 6th grade math/science teacher from Queens, New York. Marnie shares how transitioning from an active and hands-on face to face classroom to a completely online model is killing engagement.

Together we brainstorm how to deal with "Dead Air" fear on Zoom, how to get your students to take risks, and how to engage students while teaching strictly online.

This is another Math Mentoring Moment episode where we talk with a member of the Math Moment Maker Community who is working through struggles and together we brainstorm possible next steps and strategies to overcome them.

You’ll Learn:

How to overcome "Dead Air Syndrome” while teaching over Zoom;
How to eat the “Distance Learning Elephant”;
How to get your students to take risks in your online classroom;
How to engage students while teaching strictly online.

Resources:

https://makemathmoments.com/from-a-distance/

Episode 21 https://makemathmoments.com/episode21

5 Practices https://amzn.to/30KrMa8

Academy https://makemathmoments.com/academy

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

#107: How To Believe In Your Math Educators - An Interview with Mary Kemper Dec 14, 2020

Show notes

Mary Kemper is the Director of Mathematics for Coppell ISD in Coppell, Texas. She’s an Apple Distinguished Educator, and the outgoing president of the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics. In this episode we chat with Mary about what professional learning and support needs to look like; how to nudge teachers without causing overwhelm; what to stop doing in your professional development sessions and how to build a sustainable PD model.

You’ll Learn:

What professional learning and support needs to look like;
How to nudge teachers without overwhelming;
What to stop doing in your professional development.
How to build a sustainable PD model.

Resources:

Professional Development Tips from Mary

Learning Lab Model

Mary on Twitter

https://www.coppellisd.com/domain/2896

Love the show? Text us your big takeaway!

Are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans that leave students so engaged they don’t want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? In their podcast, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr—founders of MakeMathMoments.com—share over 19 years of experience inspiring K-12 math students, teachers, and district leaders with effective math activities, engaging resources, and innovative math leadership strategies. Through a 6-step framework, they guide K-12 classroom teachers and district math coordinators on building a strong, balanced math program that grows student and teacher impact. Each week, gain fresh ideas, feedback, and practical strategies to feel more confident and motivate students to see the beauty in math. Start making math moments today by listening to Episode #139: "Making Math Moments From Day 1 to 180.

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