Math Therapy

The Awkward Return?! (S6 is coming)

March 07, 2024 Vanessa Vakharia Season 6
Math Therapy
The Awkward Return?! (S6 is coming)
Show Notes Transcript

The rumours are true!  (The rumours that Vanessa has been spreading herself.)  Season 6 of Math Therapy launches March 28th!

To get you hyped while we get this batch of episodes ready for you, here are some brief thoughts she recorded immediately after we finished a marathon 10 interviews over 4 days.  What themes did she cover? Will she or her guests get cancelled this season?  How much did she annoy her producer David?  You be the judge ...

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Vanessa Vakharia:

The last interview. I'm done. Ten interviews. We recorded ten interviews for season six. How am I feeling? How am I feeling? Um, My makeup is smudged. My glitter is in my, on my contact lenses. I'm feeling good. I feel like, I'm thinking back to all the past seasons and like how far Math Therapy has come from like interviewing guests who hated math and were so math anxious, to now interviewing educators about how to help prevent math trauma in the math classroom. I feel like I've learned so much. Like, I feel like, well, first of all, this is the first season where I've been taught math, two guests taught me math, and where I was able to observe my own math trauma be triggered. And in the moment, actually use the strategies I'm constantly preaching to everyone, and that felt really good. It felt like a full circle moment, so that was exciting. I'm so excited about the stories, I feel like there was a lot of juicy gossip. I feel like I really swore a lot at some poor unsuspecting guests who were kind of like, what's wrong with you? I guessed a lot of people's astrological signs correctly, I guessed more of them incorrectly. We laughed, we cried, I did cry, I did cry like twice almost. I think what's interesting is some of the major themes, because all my guests I had on for completely different reasons, but three things kept coming up over and over again. Trust. How do we build it? How do we find it? How do we maintain it? Beauty and joy in math. How does that happen and how have we strayed so far from the path? And third of all, why are people so mean to me on the internet? Those are the three themes I think that you're going to find this season. So if you're interested in any of those themes, like you've come to the right place. With so many of these things, I have all these notes and I'm ready to ask these questions. And for most of these interviews, I didn't ask anything on my pieces of paper because the conversations were just so juicy, I couldn't let them go. Um, Will I get cancelled this season? I wonder every, I don't wonder every season, in fact, but I wondered last season and I definitely wonder this season, so I guess let's find out. I did annoy David, but I think less. He had to tell me to take off my bracelets multiple times. That was annoying him. I think I actually hit the mic a lot less than I have in previous episodes.

David Kochberg:

That's true.

Vanessa Vakharia:

But he said that I would drink too much espresso late in the afternoon and my foot would be tapping and that would somehow disrupt the sound, so I guess that. And then he was trying to do this thing where he got me to like monitor my own levels, which is ridiculous because obviously that's not going to happen. I think the sound is going to sound really good this season.

David Kochberg:

Guess we'll find out!

Vanessa Vakharia:

Tune in. Season six of Math Therapy. Who the fuck knows what's gonna happen.

David Kochberg:

Click.

Vanessa Vakharia:

Okay, that's good. If you want me to guess your star sign, send me a DM with these three facts. Number one.

David Kochberg:

No no no, no, that's enough.

Vanessa Vakharia:

K.

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