Math Therapy
How to turn anxiety into empowerment
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Most episodes, Vanessa is chatting with colleagues about the root causes of math anxiety/trauma and exploring how math education can change to avoid causing them.
But as long as math remains a 4-letter word for some, we need some practical coping strategies! So today, Vanessa details 5 ways you can flip anxious math moments into empowering ones - for teachers, parents, and students.
Learn how to:
- Trade control for curiosity
- Admit what you don't know
- Not be afraid to follow tangents in class
- Coregulate before you educate
- Heal your own math trauma
Other episodes mentioned:
- How to find the "why" in math class w/ Mike Flynn
- Why 1 + 1 isn't always 2 w/ Eugenia Cheng
- 5 simple Math Therapy strategies for your classroom
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