Parent to 4 kids. Wife to my Kindergarten sweetheart @scottytondevold. Exploring how young children build their mathematical minds is my calling.

Joined September 2012
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
1 Aug 2025
Does fidelity work in learning design? Too often I think it reminds me of IKEA. Recently went to IKEA and followed the path until we picked out a “big girl bed” for my youngest. It took me 3 hours to follow those directions and build that bed. At the end of that time we had a bed and I felt a sense of accomplishment for finishing the task/project. My daughter was happy and I felt it was money well spent. Did I learn anything though? No. Do I now know how to build a bed? No. I do know how to follow directions. I was compliant during the process. But the only transfer that happened was realizing following directions makes a task like that easier. How often do our kids follow the directions with little learning or transfer to demonstrate on the other side of a task or learning experience? Now imagine if I had a robot/AI at home to follow the directions and build it for me…
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
Day 2 of the Build Math Minds Virtual Summit! Starting this Sunday morning off learning about Problem Strings. I love learning about how to get students thinking and talking about math! @BuildMathMinds @CFISDLieder @cfisdmath @pwharris
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
How did you spend your weekend? Many of our dedicated elementary teachers spent their weekend learning at the @BuildMathMinds Virtual Summit! #rsdmathrocks
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
So excited for my favorite PD of the year for math! Build Math Minds Virtual Summit @BuildMathMinds I always learn so much! Looking forward to the opening keynote from Peter Liljedahl and Meagan Giroux @pgliljedahl @CFISDLieder @cfisdmath
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
22 Feb 2025
When I say “Show me your work” do I really mean, “Show me my work”??? 🤯 #mathisfigureoutable #BMM25 @pwharris @BuildMathMinds
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
@gfletchy is dropping some powerful math teaching tips in @BuildMathMinds#virtualmathsummit! One tip- counting routines! ✅ out this video I made on the topic for TK-5 educators! Enjoy 😊 youtu.be/LjTrtn2q0q8?si=q5Pr… #elemmathchat #mathroutines #MTBoS #AZsketches #GWHow2Sketchnote
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Spoiler Alert‼️don’t swipe if you plan to attend @AlishaZare session tomorrow at the Virtual Math Summit. I don’t want to influence your own sketches. Learn how to help S’s with math vocab by sketching their meanings. If you aren’t signed up, register at VirtualMathSummit.com
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
21 Feb 2025
Catch my session and more at the Virtual Math Summit hosted by @BuildMathMinds starting on February 22nd. Make sure to register and get PD at your fingertips: VirtualMathSummit.com #buildmathminds25 #MathIsFigureOutAble #MTBoS #ITeachMath #MathEd
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
19 Feb 2025
I’m speaking at the Virtual Math Summit hosted by @BuildMathMinds starting on February 22nd. Leaders, get this link to your teachers: VirtualMathSummit.com
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
15 Feb 2025
I’m registered for @BuildMathMinds virtual summit…are you? One session I’m eager to join is ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️. Hope to see you there! @MikeFlynn55 @Zakchamp #BuildMathMinds25
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
29 Jan 2025
Another way to think about the "greater than" and "less than" signs without relying on alligators
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I don’t like getting sucked into social media apps so I don’t get on here often, but when I do I always find gems. Can’t wait for my order of @joyfulmaths games to get here! Who has used these? What do you think of them?
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Wow! What possibilities here
17 Oct 2024
My favorite slide from one of my favorite talks at @NCTM. One of the biggest challenges facing math teachers (whether they know it or not!) is turning wrong answers into learning. Behold! The Super Wrong, Kinda Right continuum. /by @ottensam docs.google.com/presentation…
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A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College 🧵
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Wow, in the last pic… “Find the right rather than right the wrong.” 👏
Another fantastic presentation from @ddmeyer at #NCTMCHI24 that's challenging me to rethink our unspoken contract with students about our relationship with being wrong or right. 👏
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Making Sense was one of the first books that made an impact on journey to changing my teaching of math.
25 Sep 2024
Congratulations to James Hiebert for being the 2024 NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award recipient! #NCTMCHI24
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Christina Tondevold retweeted
I’m ready @BuildMathMinds for the start of this book study! I enjoyed digging into this book this week at the beach and can’t wait to learn from others on implementing these routines and ideas this coming year! Anyone else doing this book study? @JohnSanGiovanni
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If you want to join in this free book study go to buildmathminds.com/bookstudy

Started my first professional book of the summer! Looking forward to reading this and implementing next year in my classroom :) @CFISDLieder @BuildMathMinds
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🤦🏻‍♀️ this book was the one we did LAST summer. This summer we are doing Daily Routines to Jump-Start Math Class
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