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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…

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