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TEDx, Math Anxiety
A huge milestone in the Yay Math journey, a first appearance on TEDx! Here the talk is about how math anxiety is a preventer of success at school, and eventually, with people's career aspirations. Yay Math directly alleviates that anxiety, through humanizing the learning experience within the live classroom.
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LA Talk Radio interview
What a conversation! Thank you Dr. Cheryl Lubin, host of In Our Times, for such a valuable and meaningful time together. We cover a lot, including teaching as performance, conquering self-defeat, and my comments on the idea of "not being a math person." Let your next commute include a dose of inspiration!
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Parenting Then... & Now
Many parents and teachers can't help but compare what it was like "back then" to the way things are now. So you could imagine my ultimate glee when I learned that a podcast exists on this very topic. I had the good fortune to be interviewed on this episode, and topics ranged from what it was like as a child vs. now, math learning for boys vs. girls, and the pixelated elephant in the room: how imbalanced use of technology undermines our kids’ ability to connect to others and lead fulfilling lives.
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Bring math to the masses
In a spot-on piece in Los Angeles's Jewish Journal, Yay Math shines as an educational beacon for students near and far. Author Leslee Komaiko investigates proper, not only with an interview of Robert, but also quotes a student from his class. She takes a look into new endeavors too, like our debut book, and StatsCenter.
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TEDx, Personal Meaning
In our second TEDx appearance themed "Igniting your future," we discuss the importance of creating a personal sense of meaning in our lives. Sometimes we don't establish our life's purpose because of the many forces out there which hijack our ability to make personal decisions. How to fix that phenomenon is discussed here, at TEDx SDSU. Click to see the talk.
Room to Grow podcast
Hosted by stellar veteran teachers who are also kind-of-a-big-deal leaders at Texas Instruments, I was invited to be their first-ever guest on their podcast, Room to Grow. If you're interested in how to make math learning come alive for students, and hearing some funny stories that'll get you thinking along the way, then tune in. I know you'll like it. It's my best interview thus far. Click to hear the interview.
Story on Examiner.com
After discovering Yay Math to help her nail her GRE, columnist and educator Leah Welch wrote this comprehensive interest piece on the Examiner.com.
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BlogTalkRadio interview
Dynamic radio MC Lauren Liebowitz hosts a fantastic conversation about Yay Math, how it has resonated with viewers, and the need for quality instruction available to the public. Thank you, BlogTalkRadio, for the chance to bring more awareness to the Yay Math movement!
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School Library Journal
Karen Springen, journalist and professor at Northwestern University, Evanston IL, takes an in-depth view of the flipped classroom model, including its strengths and shortcomings. Yay Math was interviewed as a first-hand source for our views on this rapidly growing educational phenomenon.
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POWr to the people
Yay Math is incredibly fortunate to be in partnership with POWr.io, an incredible online platform that brings to life the 'video sliders' our site uses so beautifully. They offer an immense list of easy-to-use tools that'll bring any website to life, for educators, artists, e-commerce, anything you'd need. Yay Math was featured in their blog post.
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Detroit Free Press
It's uncanny that the people who write about Yay Math are often the same journalists who benefitted from its videos while they were in school. Writers know a story when they see it! This time it was a student apprentice of the Free Press, who not only used Yay Math, but also saw how others around her were being affected by it.
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Homeschool mom
In her blog, "Notes From a Homeschooling Mom," Andrea Hermitt writes about the woes of helping her children when they were taking advanced math classes. She found Yay Math, her kids loved it, and she blogged about it. Thanks, Andrea!
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Used in homeschooling
Our friends at the Easy Peasy All-in-One High School use Yay Math videos as a major component of their Geometry and Algebra 2 courses. Easy Peasy is such a great and comprehensive program, run by people who really care for the success of their students and families.
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Fred Rogers Center
In one of our blog posts, we discuss the brilliance of Fred Rogers as an educator who masterfully connected to children across generations. His legacy has been timeless, so the post explores exactly why he was so successful. The Fred Rogers Center picked up the piece and published it to their audience as well.
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