Rounding Up
Welcome to Rounding Up, the professional learning podcast brought to you by The Math Learning Center. Two things have always been true in education: Ongoing professional learning is essential, and teachers are extremely busy people. Rounding Up is a podcast designed to provide meaningful, bite-sized professional learning for busy educators and instructional leaders. I'm Mike Wallus, vice president for educator support at The Math Learning Center and host of the show. In each episode, we'll explore topics important to teachers, instructional leaders, and anyone interested in elementary mathematics education. Topics such as posing purposeful questions, effectively recording student thinking, cultivating students' math identity, and designing asset-based instruction from multilingual learners. Don't miss out! Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. Each episode will also be published on the Bridges Educator Site. We hope you'll give Rounding Up a try, and that the ideas we discuss have a positive impact on your teaching and your students' learning.
Episodes
Organizing Board Space to Support Reasoning & Connection, Part 2, with Dr. Tutita Casa & Katherine Mack
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 5 | EPISODE 2
Repositioning the classroom board as a shared space for teachers and students can create opportunities for deeper student learning and have a subtle but significant impact on students' math identities.
In part 2 of this two-part se...
Organizing Board Space to Support Reasoning & Connection, Part 1, with Dr. Tutita Casa & Katherine Mack
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 5 | EPISODE 1
Classroom boards have traditionally been a space that belongs to the teacher, even as technology changes. What would it look like to rethink our relationship with the board, repositioning it as a shared space for teachers and students alike?
In...
Looking Ahead to Season 5
Rounding Up returns next week for its fifth season, examining even more ideas, concepts, and practices that shape teaching and learning in elementary mathematics classrooms. This season, we invite our listeners to engage with us by leaving a comment on our website, mathlearningcenter.org/podcast. We look forward to hearing from you!
TRANSCRIPT
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Recording Student Thinking During a Mathematics Discussion with Nicole Garcia
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 24
Learning to record students' mathematical thinking might best be described as "on-the-job training" with a great deal of trial and error and a lot of practice.
In this rereleased episode from Season 1, Nicole Garcia from the University of Michigan talks abou...
Making Sense of Fractions with Susan Empson, PhD
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 23
For quite a few adults, fractions were a stumbling block in their education, causing them to lose their footing and begin to doubt their ability to make sense of math. But this doesn't have to be the case for our students!
In this rerelease of an episode from Season 2, we're talking with Susa...
Breaking the Cycle of Math Trauma with Kasi Allen, PhD
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 22
If you are an educator, you've likely heard people say things like "I'm not a math person." While this may make you cringe, if you dig a bit deeper, many people can identify specific experiences that convinced them that this was true. In fact, some of you might secretly wonder if you are a math pers...
The Big Place Value Episode with Eric Sisofo, EdD
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 21
If you ask an educator to share some of the most important ideas in elementary mathematics, most would include place value on that list. But what does it mean to understand place value, really? And what types of language, practices, and tools support students as they build understanding?
In...
Practical Ways to Build a Strengths-Based Elementary Math Classroom with Dr. Beth Kobett
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 20
What if it were possible to capture all of the words teachers said or thought about students and put them in word clouds that hovered over each student throughout the day? What impact might the words in the cloud have on the student's learning experience? These are ...
Posing Purposeful Questions with Dr. DeAnn Huinker
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 19
Educational theorist Charles De Garmo once said, "To question well is to teach well. In the skillful use of the question, more than anything else, lies the fine art of teaching."
In this re-release of an episode from Season 1, our guest is Dr. DeAnn Huinker, one of the coauthors of Ta...
Productive Ways to Build Fluency with Basic Facts with Dr. Jenny Bay-Williams
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 4 | EPISODE 18
This summer we're replaying favorite listener episodes from the first four seasons of Rounding Up—like this one from Season 1. We'll return with all new episodes in early September.
Ensuring students master their basic facts remains a shared goal among paren...
ROUNDING UP: Supporting Multilingual Learners During Number Talks with Jana Dean & Heather Byington
What might it be like to engage in a number talk as a multilingual learner? How would you communicate your ideas, and what scaffolds might support your participation?
Today, we're talking with Jana Dean and Heather Byington about ways educators can support multilingual learners' ...
ROUNDING UP: Understanding the Roots of Fluency with Addition & Subtraction with Kristin Frang
Research suggests that supporting students' fluency with addition and subtraction hinges on understanding how children's mathematical thinking develops. So what are the concepts and ideas that play a part in fluency with combinations to 10, 20, and beyond?
Today, we'll explore this qu...
ROUNDING UP: Math Trajectories for Young Learners *PART 2* with Dr. DeAnn Huinker & Dr. Melissa Hedges
Research confirms that early mathematics experiences play a more significant role than we once imagined. Studies suggest that specific number competencies in 4-year-olds are strong predictors of fifth grade mathematics success. So what does it look like to provide meaningful mathematical experie...
ROUNDING UP: Math Trajectories for Young Learners *PART 1* with Dr. DeAnn Huinker & Dr. Melissa Hedges
Research confirms that early mathematics experiences play a more significant role than we once imagined. Studies suggest that specific number competencies in 4-year-olds are strong predictors of fifth grade mathematics success. So what does it look like to provide meaningful mathematical experie...
ROUNDING UP: Pacing Discourse-Rich Lessons with Dr. Mike Steele
As a classroom teacher, pacing lessons was often my Achilles' heel. If my students were sharing their thinking or working on a task, I sometimes struggled to decide when to move on to the next phase of a lesson.
Today we're talking with Mike Steele from Ball State University about several high-leverage practices that e...
ROUNDING UP: Building a Meaningful Understanding of Properties Through Fact Fluency Tasks with Kyndall Thomas
Building fluency with multiplication and division is essential for students in the upper elementary grades. This work also presents opportunities to build students' understanding of the algebraic properties that become increasingly important in secondary mathematics.
In thi...
ROUNDING UP: Understanding Units Coordination with Dr. Amy Hackenberg
Units coordination describes the ways students understand the organization of units (or a unit structure) when approaching problem-solving situations—and how students' understanding influences their problem-solving strategies.
In this episode, we're talking with Amy Hackenberg from the University of Indiana about...
ROUNDING UP: What Counts as Counting? with Dr. Christopher Danielson
What counts as counting? The question may sound simple, but take a moment to think about how you would answer. After all, we count all kinds of things: physical quantities, increments of time, lengths, money, as well as fractions and decimals.
In this episode, we'll talk with Christopher Danielson about what count...
ROUNDING UP: Enacting Talk Moves with Intention with Dr. Todd Hinnenkamp
All students deserve a classroom rich in meaningful mathematical discourse. But what are the talk moves educators can use to bring this goal to life in their classrooms?
Today, we're talking about this question with Todd Hinnenkamp from the North Kansas City Schools. Whether talk moves are new to you or alread...
ROUNDING UP: Exploring the Seeds of Algebraic Thinking with Janet Walkoe & Margaret Walton
Algebraic thinking is defined as the ability to use symbols, variables, and mathematical operations to represent and solve problems. This type of reasoning is crucial for a range of disciplines.
In this episode, we're talking with Janet Walkoe and Margaret Walton about the seeds of algebr...
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