Adding to the Equation

Adding to the Equation

Join us, Kirk Keating and Michelle McCarron, as we add to the equation to share with you what teaching and learning mathematics sounds like. With inspiration from our math hero’s, we are echoing some important messages about teaching and learning mathematics. We want to invite you to learn alongside us in our math journey so that we can all grow as math learners. We interview some of our math hero's and take a deep and reflective dive towards creating the best learning environment possible for our students with lots of learning along the way. If you are interested in teaching and learning mathematics then this podcast is for you.

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April 13, 2024 56 mins

Join us as we talk to Peter Liljedahl, author of Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics as we take a deep dive into the art of thin slicing and how to create a sequence of tasks to take students where they are to where you want them to be. Peter Also shares the power of planning and decomposing that path with 3 different types of tasks.  Peter walks us through a grade 7 lesson (launch, body and closing) on area with a reminder...

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Today we chat with Glenn Pearson, A teacher of mathematics at Pugwash District High School.  Glenn has been reflecting on and implementing new instructional and assessment practices.  Glenn reflects on how he transitioned from point gathering to data gathering and the impacts on instruction and student well being & achievement.  Glenn dives into the importance of student autonomy and inviting students into the assessment proces...

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Today we chat with Alicia Burdess about teaching through tasks & big beautiful problems worth solving.  Alicia shares her math learning & education journey and all the learning  she engages in to continue to bring joy and instill confidence of solving big beautiful problems and teaching through them with both students & adults.  Having the goal that every child can learn math to the highest level and instilling that in ...

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We chat with Dave Martin about Outcome Based Assessment and Teaching  & Learning Mathematics in High School.  Dave shares with us pieces of his journey on changing his assessment & instruction practices as a high school math teacher and how this impacted him &  his students.

Dave Martin has a Master of Mathematics  Degree in Education, has been teaching for 16 years, during which time, he was nominated for Teac...

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We talk with Maggie MacPhee, a Math Lover, Board Gamer, Tea Drinker and a secondary mathematics teacher here in Chignecto Central Centre for Education in Nova Scotia.  Maggie has joined us in our professional learning community book study on Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics last spring, and has had the opportunity to work alongside Lisa Lunney Borden as a teacher and a learner. 

Maggie reflects on her teaching ...

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In this episode, we chat with Dr. Lisa Lunney Borden about equity,  culture, & identity  in  mathematics.  We also dive into mathematical understanding through models & manipulatives while focusing on the importance of beginning with a verb based approach so that we are creating opportunities for all of our students to learn.

Lisa is a local mathematics education hero, a professor of mathematics education at St. F...

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In this episode, we talk to Ali Hayward, a grade 7 mathematics teacher in Nova Scotia who has been implementing the Building Thinking Classroom framework.  Ali gives us a glimpse of what this looks like & feels like in her classroom.  She shares her journey, highlighting her successes and learnings alongside her students. Ali emphasizes the importance of professional learning & collaboration locally and also globally with i...

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April 15, 2021 11 mins

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What is a hero? And why are they so important in our journey as math teachers and learners? In this episode, we talk about how some of our "math hero's" have inspired us to try new things in our classrooms and why we continue to look to them for motivation and direction as we work towards creating the best learning environment possible for our students.

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Who are we? In this introductory episode, we introduce ourselves and chat about how we came to decide that we would take the leap of faith by creating our very own podcast. We share a common passion for mathematics and want to invite you to learn alongside us as we all grow as math learners.

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Go big or stay home! This is definitely true for us as we hosted our very first guest, none other than Dr. Peter Liljedahl, author of Building Thinking Classrooms. We talk to Peter about his research on Building Thinking Classrooms and how this framework transforms learning environments.  Peter describes what a Thinking Classroom looks like and sounds like and the impact these research-based practices h...

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