Learning Math

In this final episode of our Core Learning podcast series, our guest Bruce Smith talks about how students at self-directed democratic schools learn math. Bruce has decades of experience as a staff member in self-directed education, and has worked at several different schools around the US. While at Alpine Valley School, he was the resident math teacher and he outlines how the language of numbers shows up in student’s daily lives and how classes, when they happen, are structured. You can listen to the rest of the Core Learning series here.

Full show notes page: alpinevalleyschool.com/podcast/ep38

Also available on YouTube. 

Listen to the full (un-edited) interview.

Want more? 

• Send us your questions for a chance to be featured on the show and to be entered in a drawing to win a copy of “When Kids Rule the School”!

• Listen to another interview with Bruce Smith on our show

• Listen to the rest of the Core Learning series (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)

• Watch video interviews with students and staff at another democratic school all about how they learn math

• Read an article about learning math from a sister school of ours in upstate New York

   

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