Winter Wrap-Up 02: Mathematizing children's literature

Winter Wrap-Up 02: Mathematizing children's literature

Author: Bethany Lockhart Johnson and Dan Meyer February 1, 2023 Duration: 39:27
While we’re hard at work producing the exciting fifth season of Math Teacher Lounge: The Podcast, we’re continuing to share some of our favorite conversations from our first four seasons. This time around, we’re revisiting our popular episode that connected literacy and math! In this episode, we sit down with Allison Hintz and Antony Smith, authors of Mathematizing Children’s Literature, to talk about what would happen if we were to approach children’s literature, and life, through a math len...

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S4 - 01. Joyful math teaching with Kanchan Kant [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Duration: 31:27
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Duration: 30:26
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