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
Tisha Jones, Assessment as a Shared Journey: Cultivating Partnerships with Families & Caregivers
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 16
Families and caregivers play an essential role in students’ success in school and in shaping their identities as learners. Therefore, establishing strong partnerships with families and caregivers is crucial for equitable teaching and learning. This epi...
Ryan Flessner, What If I Don’t Understand Their Thinking?
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 15
“What do I do if I don’t understand my student’s strategy?” This is a question teachers grapple with constantly, particularly when conferring with students during class. How educators respond in moments like these can have a profound impact on students’ learning and their mathematical ident...
Dr. Cathery Yeh, Supporting Neurodiverse Students in Elementary Mathematics Classrooms
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 14
What meaning does the term neurodiverse convey and how might it impact a student’s learning experience?
And how can educators think about the work of designing environments and experiences that support neurodiverse students learning mathematics?
<...Assessment in the Early Years
Guest: Shelly Scheafer
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 13
Mike (00:09.127)
Welcome to the podcast Shelley. Thank you so much for joining us today.
Shelly (00:12.956)
Thank you, Mike, for having me.
Mike (00:16.078)
So I'd like to start with this question. What makes the work of assessing younger children, particul...
Dr. Victoria Jacobs,
Examining the Meaning and Purpose of our Questions
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 12
Mike (00:03):
The questions educators ask their students matter. They can have a profound impact on students' thinking and the shape of their mathematical identities. Today we're examining different types of questions, their purpose and the meaning students make of them. Joining us for th...
Dr. Karisma Morton, Understanding and Supporting Math Identity
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 11
In this episode, we will explore the connection between identity and mathematics learning. We’ll examine the factors that may have shaped our own identities and those of our students. We’ll also discuss ways to practice affirming students' identities in mathematics instruction.
Sue Kim and Myuriel Von Aspen, Building Productive Partnerships
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 10
In this episode, we examine the practice of building productive student partnerships. We’ll talk about ways educators can cultivate joyful and productive partnerships and the role the educator plays once students are engaged with their partner.
BIOGRAPHIES
Dr. Kasi Allen, Breaking the Cycle of Math Trauma
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 9
If you are an educator, you’ve likely heard people say things like “I’m 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 person...
Dr. Rebecca Ambrose, Helping Our Students Build a Meaningful Understanding of Geometry
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 8
As a field, mathematics education has come a long way over the past few years in describing the ways students come to understand number, quantity, place value, and even fractions. But when it comes to geometry, particularly concepts involving shape, it’s often ...
Dr. James Brickwedde, How You Say It Matters: Teacher Language Choices That Support Number Sense
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 7
Carry the 1. Add a 0. Cross multiply.
All of these are phrases that educators heard when they were growing up. This language is so ingrained that many educators use it without even thinking. But what’s the long-term impact of language like ...
Summer Pettigrew and Megan Williams, Building Asset-Focused Professional Learning Communities
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 5
Professional learning communities have been around for a long time, in many different iterations. But what does it look like to schedule and structure professional learning communities that help educators understand and respond to their students' thinking ...
Drs. Jody Guarino and Chepina Rumsey, Nurturing Mathematical Curiosity: Supporting Mathematical Argumentation in the Early Grades
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 6
Argumentation, justification, conjecture. All of these are practices we hope to cultivate, but they may not be practices we associate with kindergartners, first-, or second graders. ...
Beth Hulbert, Making Sense of Unitizing: The Theme That Runs Through Elementary Mathematics
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 4
During their elementary years, students grapple with many topics that involve relationships between different units. In fact, unitizing serves as a foundation for much of the mathematics students encounter during their elementary years. Today, we’re talking ...
Drs. Zandra De Arajuo and Amber Candela, Choice as a Foundation for Student Engagement
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 3
As educators, we know offering students choice has a big impact on their engagement, identity, and sense of autonomy. That said, it's not always clear how to design choice into activities, especially when using curriculum materials. Today, we’re talking with Drs....
Dr. Corey Drake, Principles for Responsive Curriculum Use
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 2
When it comes to curriculum, educators are often told to implement with fidelity. But what does fidelity mean, and where does that leave educators who want to be responsive to the students in their classrooms? Today we’re talking with Dr. Corey Drake about principles for responsive ...
Dr. Peter Liljedahl, Grouping Practices That Promote Efficacy & Knowledge Transfer
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 3 | EPISODE 1
We know from research that student collaboration can have a powerful impact on learning. That said, how we group students for collaboration matters — a lot. Today we’re talking with Dr. Pete...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 18
Earlier this season, we released an episode focused on the complex and interconnected set of concepts that students engage with when they learn to count. In this follow-up episode, we’re going to examine a powerful routine called counting collections. We’ll be talking with Danielle Robinson and Dr. Melissa Hedges from Milwaukee Public Schools about counting...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 17
Spatial reasoning can be a nebulous concept that is hard for many educators to define. In this episode, we’re talking about spatial reasoning with Dr. Robyn Pinilla from the University of Texas at El Paso. We’ll examine the connections between spatial reasoning and other mathematical concepts and explore different ways that educators can cultivate this type...
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 16
In this episode, we are talking with Drs. Amber Candela and Melissa Boston about powerful but practical strategies for supporting student talk in the elementary math classroom.
RESOURCES
ROUNDING UP: SEASON 2 | EPISODE 15
Contextualized story problems are an important tool that educators use to bring mathematics to life for their students. That said, navigating the meaning and language found in story problems is a challenge for many students. Today we’re talking with Aina Appova and Julia Hagge from The Ohio State University about strategies to help students engage with and ...
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