• Powerful Strategies for Teaching Middle School Math with Kathy Martin
    Jul 18 2023

    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/

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    26 mins
  • Easy Strategies to Help Math Students with ADHD Thrive with Dr. Hokehe Effiong
    Mar 31 2023

    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: effionghokehe@gmail.com
    Connect with Allison:
    • www.allisonlovesmath.com
    • Email: allison@allisonlovesmath.com
    • Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Allison-Dillard/author/B07PV43V59
    • FB: /AllisonLovesMath
    • IG: @allisonlovesmath
    • TW: @AllisonLuvsMath 
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    18 mins
  • Helping Students to Discover a Reason to Love Math Again with Professor Prime
    Mar 31 2023

    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: professorprime8787@gmail.com
    • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/professorprime8787/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/MathTimeWithPr1
    • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@professorprime8787
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    22 mins
  • Building Math Minds with Christina Tondevold
    Feb 21 2023

    "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

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    19 mins
  • Math is FigureOutAble with Pam Harris
    Jan 25 2023

    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

    Listen & Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Podcasts 

    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:

    • Website - https://www.mathisfigureoutable.com/

     

    • 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
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    23 mins
  • Radical Math Talk with Kwame Sarfo-Mensah
    Jan 3 2023

    “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
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    17 mins
  • Using Measurement, Data and Geometry as Anchors in Elementary Math with Marianne Strayton
    Dec 19 2022

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

     Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Podcasts 

    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
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    17 mins
  • Creating a Ruthlessly Equitable Math Class with Ken Williams
    Dec 5 2022

    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

     

    Listen & Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast | Amazon Podcasts 

     

    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 
    • ken@unfoldthesoul.com
    • 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

     

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    17 mins