Math Therapy

Your interview of Jo Boaler has energized and motivated me! I am Boalever too! Mindset and productive struggle along with tools to understand the benefits of stress are all key. Thank you for this great show.

Thought-provoking and amusing!

Vanessa and her team have made a delightful podcast that is worthy of your attention! Using her grace, charm, and humor, Vanessa has relaxed, informative, and hilarious conversations with various stakeholders in mathematics education regarding a familiar but not well explored topic of math trauma. If you are a math teacher, run — don’t walk — to your nearest pod catching app, subscribe, and binge the entire series. Check out the show notes, buy lots of books, and do some reading. Oh, and if you feel bad about potentially causing math trauma, don’t — simply learn from the guests and the host how you can improve. Thanks Vanessa!

I listened S2 E8 and the content from the guest is phenomenal. I appreciate putting him on the platform. I think the host has good intentions of trying to be flattering by sounding like overly exciting but it was so cringey at times when the guest was trying to complete his thoughts and the host just kept interrupting with sound effects like OH MY GOD, many gasps and trying to finish his thoughts as he’s talking still or seem like she’s adding her two cents but she’s just repeating what he said or finishing his sentence while he’s still talking (often so off on her surface level interpretation compared to the introspective stories he shares that educators really want to hearing . At one point he’s having an interesting intellectual reflection on Pascal and out of no where she stops him and says something like “On my god was he single ? Did he live a double life? Did he have multiple wives?” Almost like an annoying YouTube ad right in the middle of the good part. I’m gonna use it as a reference for guests to listen to elsewhere