Using Podcasts to Engage Mathematics Students

Throughout my career as a high school mathematics teacher, I taught a wide variety of middle and high school students.  For many of these children, mathematics is not their favorite class to come to.  As a former teacher, I was always trying to find ways of engaging and winning over these students and to get them to love math just a little bit more!

Podcasts are a wonderful educational tool.  The benefits of using podcasts in your classroom are actually two-fold.  Podcasts can be beneficial for students to listen to, but they can also be helpful for students to research and record on their own.  Podcasts are also a helpful tool to help build vocabulary, practice reading and writing, and listening comprehension. 

This week, I found a mathematics podcast that can be listened to by both students and teachers.  It is called "Math is Figure-out-able" and is recorded by Pam Harris.  This is exactly the message that I was consantly trying to portray to my students, that they can figure out math!  I felt an immediate connection with this podcast and decided to listen to several episodes.  I personally enjoyed "Ep 117: Math is Figureoutable, Even in High School" and "Ep 69: Equations of Lines Pt 1".  In my classroom, this type of podcast could be used as a re-teaching strategy.  If have more questions about the content that was taught that day, this could be a very helpful resource for them.  

Sources: 

EP 69: Equations of lines PT 1 - math is figure-out-able with Pam Harris. Buzzsprout. (n.d.). Retrieved November 12, 2022, fromhttps://podcast.mathisfigureoutable.com/1062400/9337049-ep-69-equations-of-lines-pt-1 

Parr, A. by: M. (2022, September 24). The 14 best podcasts to help you learn English [2022]. Language learning with Preply Blog. Retrieved November 10, 2022, from https://preply.com/en/blog/the-best-10-podcasts-to-help-you-learn-english/#scroll-to-heading-0