It’s time to make the math start mathing #TEDTalks

We are asking the wrong question in math learning. Instead of asking who can learn math, we should be asking how do you teach math? All kids, even the math kids fall behind, struggle or feel math anxiety. But the difference for those kids is someone believes and so they do the work and they catch up. And the second step is to understand. Don't just memorize math. understand it and use pictures. Think about how you can grab any book off a shelf and feel calm and confident because you can read it. What if your math learning felt like that where everything clicked into place and your math learning was durable? Step three is we have to make math fun. Make math practice fun. But we've known for years in reading, if we want kids to learn it and to love it, we need to appeal to their interests. Fantasy novels with elves, graphic novels with spies. What's that in math? Games, card games, board games, real world games you just make up on the fly. And a tip with all these games, don't make them a math lesson. Just like you wouldn't stop reading a book to underline the subject and the verb with your kids, just have fun and let your kids have fun