Allison Loves Math Podcast

Join us as we dive into a captivating podcast interview with Kathy Martin, founder of the Prealgebra Teachers Math Membership. Kathy shares her top takeaways from the highly anticipated Middle School Math Summit, featuring esteemed speakers Deborah Peart, Steve Buch, Kristen Damman, Ellen Levin, Brianne Beebe, and more. Get ready to kick off the school year on a strong note with practical advice and game-changing insights!
Learn an in-the-moment technique that alleviates math anxiety, discover a revolutionary approach to grading, and hear expert tips on effectively organizing and preparing teaching materials for a seamless and engaging learning journey.  Tune in to be inspired, challenged, and equipped with actionable techniques that will help you become a more effective and confident middle school math educator.

Get your free ticket to Kathy Martin's Middle School Math Summit here: https://middleschoolmathsummit.com/?affiliate=allisondillard

Get your free ticket to Allison Dillard’s Crush Math Anxiety Virtual Conference for Educators (plus other free resources) here: https://www.allisonlovesmath.com/

Dr. Hokehe Effiong is a certified board pediatrician, a TEDx speaker on ADHD, the mom of three awesome kids, an advocate for kids in foster care, and the CEO of Glow Pediatrics, a virtual integrative pediatric practice for students with ADHD.

In today's Allison Loves Math Podcast interview, Hokehe shares simple, practical, actionable strategies that educators and parents can use to help students with ADHD thrive in math.

Connect with Hokehe: 

• Linkedin: HokeheEffiongMD
• Facebook: HokeheEffiong
• email: [email protected]

Connect with Allison:

• www.allisonlovesmath.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Allison-Dillard/author/B07PV43V59
• FB: /AllisonLovesMath
• IG: @allisonlovesmath
• TW: @AllisonLuvsMath 

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.

Connect with Allison:

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

Connect with Professor Prime: 

• Website: https://www.mathtimewithprofessorprime.com/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MathTimeWithProfessorPrime

• Email: [email protected]

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/professorprime8787/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MathTimeWithPr1
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professorprime8787

"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

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

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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:

• 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

Get Allison’s Books:

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Allison%20Dillard%22
• Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/author/604645715/Allison-Dillard
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search?q=allison%20dillard
• And other online retailers

“Sometimes the strongest math learners are the ones who are the slowest processors. They just need a little bit more time to think through certain concepts. So we have to reframe our understanding of what it means to be strong in math.” - Kwame Sarfo-Mensah

Today, Allison interviews Kwame Sarfo-Mensah, the author of Shaping the Teacher Identity: 8 Lessons That Will Help Define the Teacher in You and From Inaction to 'In Action': Creating a New Normal for Urban Educators. A 15-year veteran urban educator, the founder of Identity Talk Consulting, LLC, and a proud graduate of Temple University, Kwame holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and a Master's Degree in Elementary Education.  He was honored as the 2019 National Member of the Year by Black Educators Rock, Inc. for his unwavering commitment to the advancement of the teacher profession.  

Kwame discusses:

• The origins of the Radical Math Talk Podcast
• The problems with empasizing speed, pacing, and high-stakes testing
• How learning math is like learning a new language
• It’s okay to let older students use manipulatives
• Redefining what it means to  be good at math
• The benefits of Howie Hua videos
• Creating a sense of belonging in math class

Connect with Kwame:

• Website - https://www.identitytalk4educators.com
• Identity Talk 4 Educators LIVE Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/identity-talk-4-educators-live/id1509599570
• Radical Math Talk Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/radical-math-talk/id1592658139 
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8mP1u2wPVb4UAuct9cM_Yw 
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kwam_the_identity_shaper
• Twitter -  https://twitter.com/identityshaper
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwame-sarfo-mensah-76142482/   
• Patreon - Kwame Sarfo-Mensah is creating multimedia content and ABAR community spaces for educators | Patreon

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

Get Allison’s Books:

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Allison%20Dillard%22
• Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/author/604645715/Allison-Dillard
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search?q=allison%20dillard
• And other online retailers

Can you solve it algebraically, arithmetically, and geometrically? - Marianne Strayton

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Today, Marianne Strayton, President of AMT New York State, talks about using engaging, real-world contexts as anchors to learning math.  She shares how to start the year with measurement, data, and geometry standards and use them as powerful catalysts to teach the rest of the year’s curriculum.

Dr. Marianne Strayton, President of the Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York State, is a full-time K-5 Math Interventionist in the Clarkstown Central School District in New York and a part-time senior curriculum developer for Eureka Math. Her master's degree centered around elementary STEM education and her doctoral work focused on overarching curriculum and teaching principles. She has become one of the authors of the Math MileMarkers children's book series and has published articles in NCTM and ASCD publications.

Connect with Marianne on Twitter: @MSeducateEdD

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

Get Allison’s Books:

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Allison%20Dillard%22
• Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/author/604645715/Allison-Dillard
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search?q=allison%20dillard
• And other online retailers

Excellent and equity are the same thing. There are factors that advance the work of equity and we want to be ruthless about doing more of that. - Ken Williams

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In today’s interview, Ken Williams shares how we can apply strategies from his book. Ruthless Equity: Disrupt the Status Quo and Ensure Learning for ALL Students, to our math class. From the mindset shift ‘start with the crown’ to dismantling ability groups, Ken will help you improve your math class to maximize learning for every student.

Ken Williams is a husband, father, nationally-recognized trainer, speaker, coach and consultant in leadership and school culture, and the author of Ruthless Equity. A practitioner for nearly three decades, Ken led the improvement efforts at two schools by leveraging the Professional Learning Communities at Work process. To learn more about Ken’s work, follow Ken on Twitter at @unfoldthesoul or visit Unfold The Soul online at www.unfoldthesoul.com

Connect with Ken:

• www.unfoldthesoul.com 
• 877-6UNFOLD 
• [email protected]
• Twitter: @unfoldthesoul
• Facebook: Unfold The Soul
• Instagram: @unfoldthesoul

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

Get Allison’s Books:

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Allison%20Dillard%22
• Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/author/604645715/Allison-Dillard
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search?q=allison%20dillard
• And other online retailers

“Students with Dyscalculia are very smart, but the way we teach math in schools is not accessible to them.” - Adrianne Meldrum

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Today’s interview is with Adrianne Meldrum, the founder of Made for Math (MFM), about how to best support our students with Dyscalculia. From concrete pictorials and subitizing, to tips on teaching place values and the best ways to tweak your worksheets, Adrianne provides a wealth of concrete tips that you can use tomorrow to help your students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and math learning disabilities.

Adrianne is the founder and owner of Made for Math (MFM), an all-online math center focused on serving students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and math learning disabilities. She is a certified Multisensory Math Instructor through Marilyn Zekker and recently graduated with a Master’s Degree from Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity. 

WEBSITE:

• Website https://madeformath.com/
• Unlocking Dyscalculia Web Series: https://madeformath.com/unlocking-dyscalculia/
• [email protected]
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MadeforMath
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/madeformath
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madeformath/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/made-for-math

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

Get Allison’s Books:

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Allison%20Dillard%22
• Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/author/604645715/Allison-Dillard
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search?q=allison%20dillard
• And other online retailers

Bringing the world to your classroom can be silly, but it can also be profound and it can make math more meaningful.

In today’s interview, Julio Penagos, education problem solver and co-founder of SOLVED, shares his advice for helping students to learn math through experiences. He digs into examples of how to bring the world to math class, the benefits of incorporating stories in math class, and tips on content and engagement.

SOLVED currently serves over 200 schools in New York City by solving their most stubborn problems through world-class technology, data, professional development & branding solutions.

Connect with Julio at Solved Consulting:

• Website: www.solvedconsulting.com
• Contact:  [email protected]
• @Solvedconsulting https://www.instagram.com/solvedconsulting/?hl=en

Connect with Julion, Mr. Pentagon:

• Instagram: @Mr.Pentagon https://www.instagram.com/mr.pentagon/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Coach5gon

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

Get Allison’s Books:

• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Allison-Dillard/e/B07PV43V59
• Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Allison%20Dillard%22
• Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/author/604645715/Allison-Dillard
• Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/search?q=allison%20dillard
• And other online retailers