Summary

To foster students' mathematical reasoning skills, educators must adopt methods that encourage natural thinking rather than relying solely on worksheets and paper. Joe Mannarino, a 5th-grade teacher at John Muir Elementary School in San Francisco, has demonstrated that listening to Learn interviews significantly enhances numerical understanding. He explains that these structured questioning sessions help teachers analyze how students process information and solve problems more effectively within the classroom environment.

Similarly, Emily LeMaire from North Riverside Elementary School utilized similar interview techniques to support young learners who often struggle with writing tools. While other administrators like Sara Liebert describe reporting data from such listening sessions as valuable for classroom conferencing, team building, and broad school-wide planning, Mannarino emphasizes that this approach shifts the focus away from static tasks toward interactive inquiry. By facilitating these discussions, teachers are able to identify individual student strengths while simultaneously cultivating collaborative problem-solving strategies that extend beyond basic arithmetic drills.

Title

Listening to Learn

Description

A K–5 digital interview tool focused on students’ mathematical thinking.

Downstreams

heinemann.com, twitter.com, facebook.com

NS Lookup

A 45.60.11.203, A 45.60.101.203

Dates

Created 2026-10-13

Updated 2026-10-16

Summarized 2026-11-06