Kyle Pearce & Jon Orr

Making Math Moments That Matter

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Helping you transform your K-12 math lesson plans by building confidence in effective teaching practices, guiding you to transform your math curriculum, and inspiring classroom strategies to engage all students. As a teacher are you wondering how to create K-12 math lesson plans where students don't want to stop exploring your math curriculum when the bell rings? As a mathematics coordinator or leader are you wondering how to support teachers when implementing engaging math lessons that fuel student sense making? Over the last 19 years, Kyle and Jon, the founders of MakeMathMoments.com have...

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Kyle Pearce & Jon Orr

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#8: How We Can Redesign Success in Our Classrooms (and why we should). A Math Mentoring Moment with Katrien Vance. 21.01.2019 46:25

In this episode we talk to Katrien Vance who is a veteran teacher that set a total different approach to give her students a sense of direction and help them stay focused. We outline why she did it, how she did it, and how it all worked out for the students. You’ll learn: How to redefine success in your classroom. How to create lessons where students ask more questions. How to create a math class...

#7: Routines, Curiosity, and Assessment: A Math Mentoring Moment with Sarah-Jane Wells 14.01.2019 1:18:10

In episode 7, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr talk with Making Math Moments That Matter online workshop participant, Sarah-Jane Wells about realizing her personal privilege has affected her teaching habits, how she’s been working on Sparking curiosity consistently to get kids engaged and keep them on task… and a BIG can of worms was opened when the conversation moved into assessment, evaluation and the ro...

#6: Looking for Joy in Mathematics Joy: An Interview with James Tanton 07.01.2019 1:11:48

This week we interview the great James Tanton. Author, curriculum writer, speaker, creator of Exploding Dots and spreader of joyous mathematics! We bet that you’ll find yourself smiling as you listen to James’ enthusiasm for joyous mathematics. You’ll Learn: Why Education at all levels K-12 is intellectually rich, profound, deep, wonderful, and equally important. How to make math joyous, wonderful...

#5: Too Many Resources and Too Little Time - A Math Mentoring Moment with Nicole Martin 31.12.2018 1:03:45

In our first Mentoring Moments episode we chat with Nicole Martin, a 3rd/4th grade math teacher in Las Vegas Nevada. Nicole was struggling with how to structure her math lessons in a way that is engaging yet meaningful when she has so many great resources she’s found online. Nicole shares with us how after finding so many great math resources online such as 3 act math tasks, estimation 180 and mor...

#4: 3 Moves That Ignite Teacher Action 24.12.2018 1:07:48

In this episode, Kyle Pearce and Jon Orr share 3 moves to ignite TEACHER action in the classroom so you can spark curiosity and fuel sense making in your students. We outline how we’ve used these moves in our classrooms to make significant learning gains with our students and give you valuable tips on so you can incorporate these moves regularly classroom. Specifically, you’ll learn: Why plannin...

#3: Fuel Sense Making With Our 4 Go-To Tools 15.12.2018 1:01:39

Join Kyle Pearce from TapIntoTeenMinds.com and Jon Orr from MrOrr-IsAGeek.com as they take a dive into the Making Math Moments That Matter 3-Part Framework! In episode 3, they unpack 4 “Go-To” Tools for Fuelling Sense Making in math class. What are you waiting for? Fire up the episode! Looking for resources from this episode? Check out the show notes here: http://makemathmoments.com/episode3...

#2: Sparking Curiosity With The Curiosity Path 15.12.2018 52:55

Join Kyle Pearce from TapIntoTeenMinds.com and Jon Orr from MrOrr-IsAGeek.com as they take a dive into the Making Math Moments That Matter 3-Part Framework! In episode 2, they dive into the first part: Sparking Curiosity and highlight one of their favourite curiosity sparking strategies called the Curiosity Path. What are you waiting for? Fire up the episode! Looking for resources from this ep...

#1: Welcome To The Making Math Moments That Matter Podcast! 15.12.2018 39:41

Wondering how to create a classroom culture where students don't want to stop exploring mathematics when the bell rings? Join Kyle Pearce from TapIntoTeenMinds.com and Jon Orr from MrOrr-IsAGeek.com as they team up for EPISODE #1 to uncover how we can Make Math Moments That Matter for every student in the math classroom from Kindergarten through Grade 12. Discover how you can build easy to pl...