Course | The Flexibility Formula for 3rd-5th Grades

Prices

The price listed reflects a lifetime access for one person to access only the course videos and resources. Other pricing options are available if you need to enroll multiple teachers:

• Monthly
Individual Membership - $39 per person
Site license with individual logins (limit to 30 logins because the Build Math Minds is tracking progress, $33 for each additional 3 months login, $343 for 12 months) - $990

• Yearly
Individual Membership - $468 per person
Group Purchase (6-10 people) $60 discount for year - $408 per person
Large Group Purchase (11-25) - $385 per person
Site license with individual logins (limit to 30 logins because the Build Math Minds is tracking progress, $33 for each additional 3 months login, $343 for 12 months) - $10,300

For further information, please visit Build Math Minds website.

Course Facilitator

Christina Tondevold
The Recovering Traditionalist & Build Math Minds Facilitator

Christina Tondevold is a math educator, author, and proud mom of four who is passionate about helping children experience mathematics in meaningful and engaging ways. Before becoming a parent, she discovered research that completely changed how she viewed math, shaping the way she would later support her own children’s learning. Christina describes herself as a Recovering Traditionalist because she once relied heavily on memorized procedures as both a student and a teacher. While she could follow algorithms, she struggled with mental math and problem-solving, and she later realized that teaching straight from a textbook wasn’t enough to help all students succeed. Today, Christina is a strong advocate for growth mindset, believing that mistakes and productive struggle are essential parts of learning. She encourages students and educators to move beyond step-by-step instructions and embrace deeper mathematical thinking.

Description

Want the missing piece to build your students' math fluency?
Join in with other educators for Build Math Minds newly released online course: The Flexibility Formula with Christina Tondevold.

You are ready to change how you teach math and how your students think about math!
• You have kiddos who have 'learned' the multiplication strategies, yet still revert back to skip counting.
• You are looking for something that will help you with those kiddos who 'just don't get it'.
• You are looking for how to help your kiddos understand that 3/4 is not 3 out of 4 objects, but actually 3 one-fourth pieces.
• You want to help your students be flexible thinkers when they add & subtract.
• And you want to do all this and make it fun!

At the end of this course, you will have:
• A clearly defined progression of what number sense looks like and how it impacts multi-digit addition & subtraction, multiplication & division, and fractions.
• Peace of Mind in knowing you are heading in the right direction
• More of a conceptual understanding of the math you teach. If you are like Christina, you were taught the procedural steps of math but not the understanding behind them.
• More time, because this course will give you pre-made games and parent letters along with lists of activities to help you build number sense for your kiddoos. No more endlessly searching on Pinterest and TpT wondering if what you are finding is any good.

• Clear & Defined Path
Learn the foundational pieces of Number Sense that are keeping your students from becoming fluent with and get lots of ideas to help you develop your plan of implementation.

• Conceptual Understanding
It's hard to teach kids the why behind the math if we never learned it ourselves. Let Christina help you build the conceptual understandings to help your students understand the why behind the procedures.

• Love of Teaching Math
For too many educators, math is not their favorite subject. If that is you, this course will help you learn to love teaching math.

What You'll Learn in the Flexibility Formula

There are four parts to building students’ flexibility which make up the 4 modules in the course:

• Module 1: Understanding
In this module you will build your understanding of the 8 Number Sense Concepts that build students' flexibility with numbers.

• Module 2: Observing
Then you'll learn how to observe students to see what concepts they understand and which ones they are still building.

• Module 3: Connecting
Seeing how the number sense concepts connect together and connect with other math concepts helps determine...

• Module 4: Experiencing
...the experiences you provide students to help them build their flexibility. You will discuss the types of experiences you should provide students and you will get lots that you can use right away with your students.

Participants will become knowledgeable about instructional practices that build connections around number and increase student flexibility. You will learn the content, methods, and materials necessary to develop number sense in 3rd-5th grade. You will become familiar with assessing through observation and using children’s thinking to guide instruction. You will develop an understanding of the framework for children’s development of number sense. Overall, you will become more confident in your ability to teach mathematics.

Specifically, the course will address the following concepts:

4 Early Numeracy Concepts (Subitizing, Verbal Counting, Object Counting, and Cardinality) and the 4 Number Relationships (Spatial Relationships, One/Two More & Less, Benchmark Numbers, and Part-Part-Whole).

The missing piece in math fluency work is building kids’ flexibility.
Flexibility with numbers is something we cannot directly teach to kids. It comes from the experiences they have with numbers and the connections they see between numbers. The Flexibility Formula helps 3rd-5th grade teachers learn how to help kids catch flexibility so you can build math minds and not just create calculators.

Get These Bonuses When You Enroll

• Bonus #1 - Ten Frame Multiplication Pack
Every single time Christina shows multiplication inside a ten frame, she gets questions like “Where can I get that?!?!”
This document has all the multiplication facts (x1 through x10. Christina didn’t include x0) in a ten frame!

Plus, the document is totally editable!

• Bonus #2 - Editable Math Image Pack
Throughout Flexibility Formula 3rd-5th, Christina will be talking a lot about making the concepts visual for your students.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easy way to do that? Well, there is! When you register for the course, you will be given a document full of all the visual images Christina uses inside the course, plus a video on how to use the image pack to create the visuals your students need to see.

Not only do you get visuals for multiplication, but you get visuals for multi-digit numbers and fractions as well! All fully editable!

Credit

Each state has different requirements for what they accept for CEUs or Professional Development. So, check to see what is required. Build Math Minds offers a certificate of completion for 15 hours or you can take the course for professional development credit through an accredited university that Build Math Minds has it set up through, you just need to pay the university their $60 fee for the credit.

Credit may be available for this course and may vary by country or institution. Please verify eligibility with Build Math Minds.