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Math Therapy

Math Therapy explores the root causes of math trauma, and the empowering ways we can heal from it. Each week host Vanessa Vakharia, aka The Math Guru, dives into what we get right and wrong about math education, and chats with some of today’s most inspiring and visionary minds working to make math more accessible, diverse, and fun for students of all ages. Whether you think you’re a "math person" or not, you’re about to find out that math people don’t actually exist – but the scars that math class left on many of us, definitely do. And don’t worry, no calculators or actual math were involved in the making of this podcast ;)

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S1E03: A mathemagical crisis w/ Jonah Babins

October 31, 2019 • The Math Guru • Season 1 • Episode 3

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Did you think that people who do well in math don’t have math trauma? THINK AGAIN. The mathematician-turned-magician (yes, that’s a thing!) Jonah Babins talks to Vanessa about how going to university for math caused him to have a total existential meltdown. He also pulls back the curtain on the relation between math and magic - voila!

About Jonah:

Jonah is a magician, performing in Toronto, New York and L.A. He also produces and performs awe-inspiring shows in Toronto with his magic company, The Toronto Magic Company. Jonah also interviews some of the most famous magicians on the planet on his very own podcast, Discourse in Magic. Basically, he’s a magic nerd.

You can follow Jonah on Instagram at @jonahbabinsmagic, @discourseinmagic and @torontomagiccompany.

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