Kids Math Talk

Today is the first of a new type of episode for our podcast. It’s called the KMT Spotlight which aims to highlight additional voices in the math community and celebrate all of the amazing things happening. 

We are looking for additional teachers, teacher educators, and parents for these episodes. If you would like to be a KMT Spotlight guest, email Desiree Harrison at [email protected] or connect with her on Twitter (@kidsmathtalk).

In this 17th episode of the Kids Math Talk Podcast, host Desiree Harrison talks with educator Vada  Gray about representation in the math classroom. 

In this 17th episode of the Kids Math Talk Podcast, host Desiree Harrison talks with educator Vada  Gray about representation in the math classroom. 

In episode 16, host Desiree Harrison talks with researcher and author Peter Liljedahl  about his new book - Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (2020) - which focuses on unpacking practices that promote growth, community, engagement, and positive mathematical identities in order to promote student centered classrooms.

In episode 16, host Desiree Harrison talks with researcher and author Peter Liljedahl  about his new book - Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (2020) - which focuses on unpacking practices that promote growth, community, engagement, and positive mathematical identities in order to promote student centered classrooms.

In the 15th episode of the Kids Math Talk Podcast, Desiree Harrison talks to educator Kaneka Turner to learn more about the impact of labeling students in the math classroom.

In the 15th episode of the Kids Math Talk Podcast, Desiree Harrison talks to educator Kaneka Turner to learn more about the impact of labeling students in the math classroom.

In episode 14, The Kids Math Talk Podcast host Desiree Harrison interviews economist Anna Gifty, who shares how she found the field of economics and is using her passion for the field to encourage and inspire others to connect numbers to our world.

In episode 14, The Kids Math Talk Podcast host Desiree Harrison interviews economist Anna Gifty, who shares how she found the field of economics and is using her passion for the field to encourage and inspire others to connect numbers to our world.

Strategies for getting kids to talk about math, don’t always come naturally to us and that’s why I’m so excited for this week’s episode where we talk to two of the authors of the text, Activating Math Talk: 11 Purposeful Techniques for your elementary Students.