Math Anxiety and Mental Math: Advice From the Fastest Human Calculator

Podcast: 10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Cool Cat Teacher · Vicki Davis

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

Math anxiety and mental math are two topics math teachers talk about constantly. How do we engage students who are scared of math? And how important are math facts anyway? Our guest, Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, won the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship doing math in his head. So what does a champion mental mathlete think about memorizing math facts? As he has worked to help kids get better at math, what has he learned about overcoming math anxiety? And what is wrong with the test scores we use every day that may be keeping kids out of future...