Math Teacher Lounge
Math Teacher Lounge is a biweekly podcast created specifically for K–12 math educators. In each episode co-hosts Bethany Lockhart Johnson (@lockhartedu) and Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer)dive deep, with guests, into the math and educational topics you care about. Interact with us on Twitter (@mtlshow) or join our Facebook group (facebook.com/groups/mathteacherlounge) for more content.
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 40
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Beyond My Years is back: Season 2 trailer
Host Ana Torres and Classroom Insider Eric Cross give you the first look at Season 2 of the Beyond My Years podcast, launching September 17, 2025. This trailer highlights what’s coming after an award…
The best of Beyond My Years (so far!)
To close out the year, we’re revisiting some of our favorite moments from the first nine episodes of the Beyond My Years podcast – and looking ahead at some of what’s to come in 2025!
Listen to Beyon…
Beyond My Years: Teaching takes joy, starring Rebecka Peterson
The latest episode of Beyond My Years features 2023 National Teacher of the Year — and math educator! — Rebecka Peterson.
On the episode, Host Ana Torres and Rebecka discuss their similar experiences…
Beyond My Years: Teaching with resilience, starring Fawn Nguyen
Hi Math Teacher Lounge listeners! Here’s an episode from Amplify’s new podcast, Beyond My Years, that we think you’ll like. It features math teacher extraordinaire Fawn Nguyen, who you may remember f…
NEW! Beyond My Years: Teaching with heart, starring Joyce Abbott
Check out Amplify’s new podcast, Beyond My Years— host and educator Ana Torres seeks out educational insights and hard-won lessons directly from people who have thrived for decades in the classroom: …
Beyond My Years podcast trailer
Listen to this trailer for our new podcast, Beyond My Years, launching August 14th.
Every day headlines tout something “new” in education—the latest research, the hottest tech, the trendiest new hack…
Preview: Winning teacher moves
After watching so much great basketball analysis throughout March and April, Dan has been inspired to put the spotlight on a different kind of superstar: exceptional math educators. Check out a littl…
Season finale: Key takeaways and looking ahead
Listen to the final episode of Math Teacher Lounge! We’ll walk through the past 10 episodes on math fluency and pull out the key takeaways from our amazing hosts–such as tips on defining and assessin…
S6-E10: Supercharge math fluency through problem-solving
Tune into this episode of Math Teacher Lounge, featuring math teaching and learning specialist and friend of the podcast, Fawn Nguyen. Listen as Nguyen dives into the unique and powerful relationship…
S6-E09: Unlocking a systematic approach to math-fluency instruction
Join us for Episode 9, in which Bethany sits down with former classroom teacher Myuriel von Aspen to talk about the importance of a systematic approach to math-fluency instruction. Listen as von Aspe…
S6-E08: Cultivating schoolwide math fact fluency
Tune in to Episode 8, where we chat with guest and former grade 1 teacher, Jody Guarino, Ed.D., about how math teachers can collaborate to develop math fact fluency at the building level. Listen as D…
S6-E07: Building math fluency through games
Join Math Teacher Lounge as we continue our season-long discussion on math fluency with a special live recording at NCTM 2023. In this episode, our guest, Jennifer Bay-Williams Ph.D., and Dan dive in…
S6-E06: Nurturing fluency through student strengths
Join us for Episode 6, where we discuss how to take an asset-based approach to building math fluency with John W. Staley, Ph.D., who has spent decades in math classrooms. In this episode Dr. Staley s…
S6-E05: Cultivating community and fluency
Tune in to Episode 5, where we dive back into our season-long discussion of math fluency with classroom teacher Lauren Carr. Listen as Lauren shares how she allows her students to approach mathematic…
S6-E04: "Making Black Girls Count," with Dr. Nicole Joseph
Join us for a special episode of Math Teacher lounge where we take a break from our focus on math fluency to talk with scholar and author Nicole M. Joseph Ph.D. Tune in to this important conversation…
S6-E03: Consciously foster math fluency
S6-02: Assessing fluency
Tune in to our latest episode where we sat down with Dr. Valerie Henry to discuss how math fluency assessments can be redesigned to provide teachers with better data and students with better learning…
S6-01: Defining math fluency
Season 6 of Math Teacher Lounge is here!
This season, we’ll be digging deep into math fluency—exploring what it is, looking into the research around it, and sharing practical tips for building it in m…
S5-08: Utilizing AI as a teaching tool
Join us as we continue our summer mini-series where we discuss how to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) as a teaching tool. In this episode of Math Teacher Lounge, we sit down with educator Kriste…
S5-07: Discerning the role of AI in education
Join us for our summer mini-series where we’ll be talking about artificial intelligence (AI): what it is, how it is already being used in education, and how it will continue to transform education in…