Education Talk Radio

What happens when the biggest barriers to learning math aren’t mathematical?

In this episode, David Cicero talks with Dr. Geillan Aly, author of Compassionate Math, about the experiences, emotions, and beliefs that students and teachers bring into the math classroom. They explore how anxiety, confidence, prior experiences, and teachers’ own relationships with mathematics can shape learning—and why helping students succeed in math may require addressing more than the math itself.

They also discuss what parents and educators can do to break cycles of negative math experiences and create classrooms where students and teachers feel more confident taking on difficult mathematics.

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