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Season 6 Trailer · Math Therapy

• 0:03
  Vanessa Vakharia: Hi, I'm Vanessa Vakharia, aka The Math Guru, and you're listening to Math Therapy, a podcast that explores the root causes of math trauma and the empowering ways we can heal from it.
• 0:13
  Vanessa Vakharia: We're about to launch season six, and I cannot wait to share these convos with you.
• 0:18
  Vanessa Vakharia: This season covered so many topics that I know will hit home for so many of you.
• 0:22
  Vanessa Vakharia: From the roots of math anxiety, to the growing movement to find wonder and joy in the beauty of math, from the challenges teachers face in keeping up with the changes in the education system, to the power of building trust and community in the classroom.
• 0:34
  Vanessa Vakharia: Here's a little sample of what's in store.
• 0:37
  Pamela Seda: As adults, we very seldom ever put ourselves in situations where we can be wrong, but we ask our students to do it every single day.
• 0:45
  Pamela Seda: Who are we, if we ask our kids to do that every day, who are we then to excuse ourselves from the discomfort of learning?
• 0:54
  Pamela Seda: Especially when another human being can be impacted.
• 0:58
  Zak Champagne: If I get to spend 180 days in the classroom with a kid, I would rather them leave my classroom having a positive outlook on who they are as a math learner than knowing a bunch of shit about math.
• 1:09
  Zak Champagne: I think it's more important for their well being and their future that they walk out feeling like they have a connection and they see themselves as a math learner.
• 1:17
  Francis Su: You don't learn music to start learning to play scales.
• 1:20
  Francis Su: People put the emphasis on thinking about math as learning scales, versus listening to a symphony.
• 1:26
  Francis Su: I just want people to experience the symphony, even if they don't end up becoming professional musicians.
• 1:33
  Howie Hua: The teacher and the student are on the same side.
• 1:35
  Howie Hua: When I was an undergrad, I thought of my professors as like mini boss battles, it's like, I need to defeat this boss to get my degree.
• 1:44
  Howie Hua: but now that I'm on the other side, I'm like, no, like teachers want to help students.
• 1:49
  Brittany Hege: I think every teaching experience is also a learning experience.
• 1:53
  Brittany Hege: Like I've never been in a classroom with students where I've not learned something about the math that I'm teaching.
• 1:59
  Kyle Pearce: We came in as these like, math geeks, both wanted to be math teachers.
• 2:03
  Kyle Pearce: One day we were in the classroom and finally realized that other people don't like math, and that's a real shocker, especially when you've gone through schooling and you have this excitement, you want to share it with students.
• 2:16
  Kyle Pearce: And very quickly we recognize that, the majority of the students that we have to interact with each day, that we've been entrusted to actually educate, are not on the same train as us.
• 2:29
  Sean Nank: Mathematics classrooms can sometimes be extremely comforting, but they can be borderline abusive at times, hence, you know, why we would need, math therapy.
• 2:37
  Sean Nank: Math doesn't give people trauma, people give people trauma.
• 2:41
  Sean Nank: And I think about that a lot in the classroom.
• 2:43
  Chris Luzniak: And at the end, when we debriefed the lesson, the teacher said, that girl who shared first has never spoken all year in my class.
• 2:50
  Chris Luzniak: But she several times raised her hand and wanted participate because she suddenly felt comfortable.
• 2:54
  Chris Luzniak: She suddenly has a voice.
• 2:55
  Chris Luzniak: She doesn't have to know the answer, but she has some opinion about things.
• 2:58
  Chris Luzniak: And so she can talk about it.
• 3:00
  Dr. India White: The reason why people feel like they're not a math person is because they've had some type of trauma or some type of negative experience.
• 3:06
  Dr. India White: You might not be a rocket scientist.
• 3:08
  Dr. India White: But you're still a math person.
• 3:09
  Dr. India White: And if you had the right teacher, you would have been able to build that confidence even more.
• 3:13
  Dr. India White: But even if you don't have the right teacher, hang out with people like me, and we'll build your confidence over time.
• 3:18
  Dr. India White: You'll be just fine.
• 3:19
  Dan Finkel: What books are to reading, play is to mathematics.
• 3:22
  Dan Finkel: We all know we're supposed to read at home with our young children.
• 3:25
  Dan Finkel: Hey, you want your kids to read, read to them, from the moment they're born, right.
• 3:28
  Dan Finkel: So then it's like, okay, well, what do you do for math?
• 3:30
  Dan Finkel: And the answer is you've got to be playing with kids, but it's a type of playing that has to do with counting and organizing, but also patterns.
• 3:39
  Dan Finkel: Playing is really the key element.
• 3:42
  Vanessa Vakharia: Season six kicks off March 28th with a mind blowing conversation with Dr.
• 3:46
  Vanessa Vakharia: Pamela Seda about what can really move the dial when it comes to making sure every single student believes that they are capable of building a better relationship with math.
• 3:55
  Vanessa Vakharia: Until then, make sure you're subscribed to the podcast wherever you listen, tell a friend about the pod, and follow me@TheMathGuru on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok.