Topic: Listening to Learn

Making space for students to solve problems in different ways and making mental math an integral part of your teaching.

When interviewing students to find out how they reason numerically―focus on how they explain their thinking. You might be surprised by what you hear.

Interviewing students—asking them to do math without paper and pencil—can reveal more about how they reason numerically and offer guidance for next-steps.

WATCH NOW: On September 21st, Marilyn Burns went live on the Heinemann Facebook page to give educators a closer look at Listening to Learn, a new K--5 digital interview tool.

Suggestions for how to have meaningful and important conversations with K–5 students about math from Marilyn Burns.

The first month of school has always been a time to get to know our students. How we begin this school year is more important than ever.

Listening to students, one on one, provides access into their reasoning in a way that’s unique and invaluable. A special blog post from Marilyn Burns.

Catch up on the Marilyn Burns Slow Twitter Chat. Watch video clips of math interviews and share your thinking of what is happening either in the blog comments or on Twitter using #ListeningToLearn.

On this special episode of the Heinemann podcast, we're joined by Lucy Calkins and Marilyn Burns as they explore what we can learn from children when we listen.

Today on The Heinemann Podcast, we're speaking with Marilyn Burns, one of today’s most highly respected math educators, to talk about math interviews.