What neuroscience tells us about who can & can’t do math w/ Hillary Mastarciyan
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What happens in the brain when we're learning math? What makes some students struggle more than others with it? Can someone study brain science if they're scared of math?! These are some of the questions that took today's guest Hillary Mastarciyan from severe math anxiety in high school (she was a former student at Vanessa's tutoring centre) to her current PhD in neuroscience at Toronto Metropolitan University!
In today's episode, they discuss:
if math anxiety is "transmissible" to students (from either teachers or parents)
the real reasons we see…
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