Vanessa Vakharia, aka The Math Guru

Math Therapy

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Math Therapy explores the root causes of math trauma, and the empowering ways we can heal from it. Each week host Vanessa Vakharia, aka The Math Guru, dives into what we get right and wrong about math education, and chats with some of today’s most inspiring and visionary minds working to make math more accessible, diverse, and fun for students of all ages. Whether you think you’re a "math person" or not, you’re about to find out that math people don’t actually exist – but the scars that math class left on many of us, definitely do. And don’t worry, no calculators or actual math were involved...

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Auteur

Vanessa Vakharia, aka The Math Guru

Categorie

Education

Website van de podcast

www.maththerapypodcast.com

Nieuwste aflevering

9 jul. 2026

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Afleveringen

S1E03: A mathemagical crisis w/ Jonah Babins 31.10.2019 36:35

Send us a text! (US messaging rates apply) Did you think that people who do well in math don’t have math trauma? THINK AGAIN. The mathematician-turned-magician (yes, that’s a thing!) Jonah Babins talks to Vanessa about how going to university for math caused him to have a total existential meltdown. He also pulls back the curtain on the relation between math and magic - voila! About Jonah: Jonah i...

S1E02: We’ve all had that math teacher w/ Sandra Birkett 24.10.2019 35:22

Send us a text! (US messaging rates apply) We’ve all had that one math teacher who made us HATE math. But of course not all of them suck! So this week Vanessa chats with our fave teacher Sandra Birkett, who overcame some SERIOUS high school math trauma to become a caring and passionate educator herself. About Sandra: Sandra Birkett has a B.A., B.Ed. AND M.Sc and is the head of the English departme...

S1E01: Why you think you suck at math w/ Sunny Verma 17.10.2019 36:50

Send us a text! (US messaging rates apply) Are you one of those tortured souls that says things like “I suck at math” or “I’m not a math person”?! Well have we got a TREAT for you! Sunny Verma, founder of the world’s largest tutoring company, talks to Vanessa this week about why we say nonsense like this to ourselves and how it’s one of the biggest bullsh*t sandwiches society keeps feeding us. B...

Introducing: Math Therapy! 10.10.2019 2:02

Send us a text! (US messaging rates apply) Have you ever said that you hate math? Do you avoid doing certain things JUST so that you don’t have to do math?! Do the words “I’m not a math person” sound familiar?!?! Math Therapy is a new podcast that works through your math trauma, one problem at a time! Each week, Vanessa Vakharia (aka The Math Guru) chats with a different guest about their relatio...