Latest Math trauma Podcast Episodes
How to change someone's mind w/ Chris Luzniak
Math Therapy - May 16, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhat if the secret to winning a debate was actually listening to your opponent? What if you could build confidence and overcome anxiety through the practice of public speaking? And HOW does someone go from dreams of Broadway fame to teaching debate in math class?! Find out today as Vanessa cha...
Math doesn't cause trauma, people do w/ Sean Nank
Math Therapy - May 09, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhen Vanessa saw today’s guest deliver a deeply personal talk at a recent math conference, she was left with more questions than answers; all she knew for certain was she had to get him on the podcast. Sean Nank is a math educator who believes that the power of our students' stories is the most...
Turns out some folks hate math w/ Jon Orr & Kyle Pearce
Math Therapy - May 02, 2024 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday’s another one for the teachers, featuring Jon Orr & Kyle Pearce of the Make Math Moments empire - they have a podcast, a framework, workshops & courses & virtual summits galore, and who knows probably even a cooking show at this point?! They join Vanessa today to discuss the SHOCKING real...
Teachers have trauma too w/ Brittany Hege
Math Therapy - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe’re often talking about trauma from the student perspective: how it happens in the classroom, and how it follows them into adulthood. But one group is often overlooked in this discussion - teachers! Today Vanessa chats with educator Brittany Hege about the challenges teachers often face in k...
More clickbait in the classroom! w/ Howie Hua
Math Therapy - April 18, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsOf the truly infinite things Vanessa likes to rant about, few top the list like math’s marketing problem - which is why she was elated to chat with social media mathstar Howie Hua! Today Howie shares how his own experiences with math anxiety sucked the joy out of math when he was a student, and...
The spiritual side of math w/ Francis Su
Math Therapy - April 11, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhen you picture a mathematician, what comes to mind? Now … what about a “mathematical explorer”? Well, that’s what Francis Su calls himself, and when Vanessa picked up his book Mathematics for Human Flourishing, she couldn’t put it down. On today's episode they explore how mathematical discov...
Tell your students you trust them w/ Zak Champagne
Math Therapy - April 04, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsLongtime listeners (like today’s guest, as you’ll discover…) will recall one name popping up in almost every interview last season, so Vanessa needed to find out for herself: who is Zak Champagne & why do people like him so much?! Through today’s rollercoaster episode she discovered a teacher wi...
The difference between equity & equality w/ Dr. Pamela Seda
Math Therapy - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn the Season 6 premiere of Math Therapy, Vanessa chats with Dr. Pamela Seda, an expert in all things education and inspiration! They dive deep into hot topics like how teachers can build trust in the classroom by modelling vulnerability, the benefits of cultivating community over competition, ...
Season 6 Trailer
Math Therapy - March 21, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsSeason 6 drops March 28th - here’s a sample of who and what you’ll hear!
Refresher: Pi Day in Prison
Math Therapy - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIt's March 14th, aka 3.14 ... so Happy Pi Day! To help you get in the zone, we're re-airing an episode from last year recounting the Math Therapy team's Pi Day 2023 trip to Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Michigan. This stemmed from Vanessa's Season 3, Episode 10 interview with Christop...
The Awkward Return?! (S6 is coming)
Math Therapy - March 07, 2024 11:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe rumours are true! (The rumours that Vanessa has been spreading herself.) Season 6 of Math Therapy launches March 28th! To get you hyped while we get this batch of episodes ready for you, here are some brief thoughts she recorded immediately after we finished a marathon 10 interviews over ...
The Awkward Goodbye
Math Therapy - October 19, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDon't worry, Math Therapy isn't going anywhere ... but here's a fun bonus episode as we look back on an incredible 5th season! It was a total success in every possible way, except one: for whatever reason, Vanessa lost the ability to simply say "goodbye" at the end of the interviews. This hadn...
Embracing your limitless mind w/ Jo Boaler
Math Therapy - July 20, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn Vanessa's masters thesis titled "Imagining a World Where Paris Hilton Loves Math", there was nobody quoted more frequently than today's guest, Stanford professor Dr. Jo Boaler. On the season 5 finale of Math Therapy, Vanessa sits down with her math ed hero to discuss how limiting beliefs vs ...
Teaching students to ... think?! w/ Peter Liljedahl
Math Therapy - July 13, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsPeter Liljedahl is literally changing the math classroom. His book "Building Thinking Classrooms" has taken the educational world by storm with a simple message: instead of teaching students to memorize, we have to teach them to think. Sounds trite, but if you ... think about it, traditional c...
Mistakes: Villains or Heroes?
Math Therapy - July 06, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsShould mistake-making be encouraged in math class? Or should mistakes be shamed because “in the real world” you can get fired from your job from making a mistake? You can probably guess how Vanessa feels, but a fellow educator recently disagreed … so of course she took to Twitter and a spirited ...
Centering student voice in math class w/ Crystal Watson
Math Therapy - June 29, 2023 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday's guest literally entered the chat wearing a t-shirt that read "TRUTH MATTERS”, and that sure set the tone for this wide-ranging episode! Crystal M. Watson is an educator who firmly believes in centering student voices in the classroom, and she also advocates for empowering students by ma...
Redefining "Success"
Math Therapy - June 22, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn today's episode, Vanessa explores the dangers of narrowly defining success and argues that contrary to popular belief, failure and success are actually BFF, not opposites (looking at you, Merriam-Webster!). She also shares a practical classroom tool for teachers and students to collaborate o...
Refresher: Drag queens & math class w/ Kyne Santos
Math Therapy - June 15, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn honour of Pride Month, we're taking a mid-season 5 break to re-air one of our all-time fave episodes featuring mathematician / drag queen Kyne Santos. Drag has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons, so we wanted to share Kyne's inspiring story of breaking stereotypes and defying ...
How struggle leads to growth w/ Robert Kaplinsky
Math Therapy - June 08, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThink of this week's episode as a kind of reverse palate cleanser ... Vanessa and today's guest Robert Kaplinsky more than make up for the lack of swearing last week! What got them fired up? Oh, just the systemic barriers to educational reform and the lack of support for both teachers and stud...
How trauma affects the brain w/ Liesl McConchie
Math Therapy - June 01, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsLast week's episode featured a deep dive with Vanessa into math trauma: what it is and how to avoid it. Today, brain expert Liesl McConchie joins her to explain the neurological science of trauma, debunk the myth of the "math gene", and discuss the hopeful promise of neuroplasticity. And not to...
What even is math trauma?
Math Therapy - May 25, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsEach episode, Vanessa discusses the impacts that math trauma can have on our collective relationship with math. But she realized she's never explained what it is! In this episode she defines what math trauma actually is, unpacks why traumatic educational experiences happen more often in math t...
Mathers gonna math w/ Deborah Peart
Math Therapy - May 18, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsYou know how readers read and writers write? Well one day Deborah Peart decided that math should also be a verb, so she created the Mather movement. She and Vanessa discuss the difference between a "mather" and a "mathematician", how numeracy and literacy are basically the same thing, and how ...
Teaching math as an act of protest w/ Dan Meyer
Math Therapy - May 11, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhen Vanessa crossed paths with Dan Meyer at a math conference, she sensed some pushback on her concept of math therapy. So naturally, she invited him on the podcast to get into it! The ensuing rollercoaster interview blurred lines between clearing the air and settling the score, as they hilari...
Season 5 trailer
Math Therapy - May 08, 2023 10:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe have some serious A-list math celebs coming at your podcast feeds over the next 10 weeks - here's a little sample until season 5 launches this Thursday!
Exciting update w/ Jill from Season 2!
Math Therapy - May 04, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsLongtime listeners will remember Season 2's Jill Waddell who shared her inspiring decision to switch careers at age 40 and go back to school for power engineering - facing down her lifelong math anxiety along the way! Vanessa caught up with her after graduation to find out how things turned out...
Pi Day in Prison (Seriously)
Math Therapy - March 30, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThere's no other way to say this: we went to prison for Pi Day this year. Longtime listeners will remembers Vanessa's fascinating and inspiring interview with Christopher Havens, an inmate serving a 25-year sentence for murder who has rehabilitated himself with math and founded the Prison Mathe...
Math reform under attack w/ Jo Boaler
Math Therapy - March 23, 2023 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMath Therapy is (briefly) back! We've been hard at work on a new season which I can't wait for you to hear soon, but I had to share an excerpt of one of the interviews I just did - you'll see why. Stanford professor Jo Boaler is one of my math heroes, I referenced her all through my master's t...
S4E10: Queering math w/ Dr. Anthony Bonato
Math Therapy - May 26, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn our final episode of the season, Vanessa chats with math professor Dr. Anthony Bonato about what it means to be queer in - let’s face it - the historically snobby and closed-minded field that is math. But as soon as you hear Anthony in today’s episode, you’ll understand there will be no silen...
S4E09: Giving students the voice they deserve w/ Rosalind Wiseman
Math Therapy - May 19, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDid you know that the infamous math movie Mean Girls was actually inspired by Rosalind Wiseman’s non-fiction book called Queen Bees and Wannabes? Today Vanessa talks to Rosalind about why we need to change the media and messaging that girls get about how it’s not “cool” to be good at math. How c...
S4E08: “Dude Walls” & the lost women of science w/ Katie Hafner
Math Therapy - May 12, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsYou’re probably thinking “what the F*CK is a dude wall?!”, and today Vanessa talks to the incredible Katie Hafner to find out. Katie is an author, journalist, and host of the podcast “Lost Women of Science,” whose mission is to tell the stories of female scientists who history has inconvenientl...
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