Why Everyone is a Math Person — Including You
Connie Vaughn |
TEDxDayton
• October 2019
We've all heard someone say "I'm not a math person." Maybe we've said it ourselves. But it's nonsense, says statistics professor Connie Vaughn. 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. Connie's mission in this talk is to bust the myths surrounding the stereotypes of what being "a math person" means.