Audience
Teachers, Parents, Students
Description
Statistics professor Connie Vaughn is passionate about showing people how they’re so much more than they think they are, mathematically and otherwise. Connie’s mission in this talk is to bust the myths surrounding the stereotypes of what being “a math person” means.
Keywords
Effective teaching strategies for NH, PI, NA, Hispanic students;
Author(s)
Connie Vaughn; TedTalk
Date
2020
Abstract
There’s no such thing as “not a math person”; if your brain can process language, it can handle math. The problem most “not math” people run into is one of math anxiety — that irrational fear that can be the product of a bad experience. It can also be passed on from others like parents and even teachers, whose efforts to help a child learn math come packaged with their own anxieties and biases.