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Everyone’s always ranting and raving about why student math scores are dropping, but are they focusing on the wrong reasons?
In today's episode, Vanessa details some factors that often get overlooked:
- Kids are raised differently now
- Kids are more distracted now
- Math anxiety has never been stronger
- Mental health challenges are more common
- Math feels irrelevant
- The value of grades has changed
- Learned helplessness
- Adults are more anxious too
- School hasn't caught up to reality
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