181 Math Trauma, Teen Talk Barbie, and the Myth of the "Math Person"
About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of personal narratives and cultural stereotypes on mathematics education, inspired by the book Math Therapy.
Let’s chat—send me a text! This week, we're kicking off our summer book study of Math Therapy by Vanessa Vakharia. Rather than providing a chapter-by-chapter summary, this series is designed as a conversation around the ideas that resonate most, the questions they raise, and how they might influence our classroom practices. In Chapter 1, one idea kept surfacing again and again: The stories we tell ourselves about mathematics matter. From cultural stereotypes and family messaging to our own cl...
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