Vanessa Vakharia

Math Therapy(tm)

5 Steps to Help Your Students Overcome Math Trauma and Build a Better Relationship with Math

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Corwin Mathematics Series
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 254mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781071936870
• ISBN-10: 1071936875
• Artikelnr.: 70274474

Autorenporträt

Known as the Lady Gaga of math education, Vanessa is the founder and director of The Math Guru, a super cool boutique math & science tutoring studio in Toronto that¿s changing stereotypes about what math education looks like. She is also the host of the Math Therapy podcast, author of the Math Hacks Scholastic book series, and lead singer/keytarist for rock band Goodnight Sunrise. She has her Bachelor of Commerce, Teaching Degree, and Masters of Math Education. She appears regularly on national television and news outlets as an expert in math education and math positivity, and her #goals are to be are to be Oprah-level-famous and to totally change math culture so that STEM is finally as cool as every single Taylor Swift song ever written. She failed Grade 11 math twice, which was the best thing that ever happened to her.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jo Boaler
Preface: Anything Is Possible (Yes, Even Math)
Chapter 1: What is Math Trauma Anyway?
Chapter 2: What IS Math Therapy?
Chapter 3: Math Therapy Step 1: Mythbust Mindsets
Chapter 4: Math Therapy Step 2: Moderate out Math Trauma
Chapter 5: Math Therapy Step 3: Motivate Your Students
Chapter 6: Math Therapy Step 4: Makeover Math Identities
Chapter 7: Math Therapy Step 5: Measure Progress
Chapter 8: So Now What?
Appendix 1
References