Conquering Math Anxiety - The Power of Yay Math: Robert Ahdoot at TEDxAJU

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[urltima]

My mom homeschooled me, and especially with math she was very hard on me and had a "why can't you just understand" attitude toward me about math. She would get upset at me to the point of me crying because I directed the "why can't I understand?" Attitude at myself. Today, I have anxiety about all things and I truly firmly believe that it stemmed from those math lessons from my mother. This video makes absolute sense.

[inezitasm]

WOW!!! Yaymath is truly amazing! I am that 42 yo mother of two that has attempted math 3 times until i found yaymath! I literally cried listening to this

[ricklarchmont]

Nevermind the crowd . . . Robert Ahdoot is an AWESOME teacher. Ahdoot exudes a geniune love of people.

[bnisrael]

Here I am trying to face my childhood trauma, and doing some soul searching to find out what went wrong. I was so convinced I am bad at math, for a very long time now. Now I am slowly starting to realize it is not the math itself, but the people who presented it to us, and the methods followed was what realllly made it that way, made us think math is bad. Incidentally, all the math people in my life carried this arrogant attitude about them... from my father to the teachers... Robert is a gift to the Math world. We need more of him, millions of him if we are to produce great scientists and engineers again.

[phynleyjoel]

I literally only survive math class because of this guy. I come home almost in tears and go straight to my computer to watch his videos and get clear. He eases my stress and helps me to understand in minutes. What an incredible person! Thank God for people like Mr. Ahdoot. Honestly kids would do better watching his videos than taking a math class. I say this as a kid who just brought up her ACT math score 6 points just from watching Yaymath videos. I finish high school in two days an thank Mr. Adhoot so much for getting me through. It's almost bittersweet to be done, and I HAVEN'T EVEN MET HIM. THANK YOU.

[filarchie]

Sir Robert, you're really a great teacher.  You always inspire me to learn my Geometry.  Im not anymore afraid to do my assignments, seatworks, recite in class or take exams.  I just say "YayMath!"  before I do it . . . Thanks a lot!  Maraming Salamat po, Sir!

[worstdreams]

I almost cried while watching this because of how relatable it is...Thank you for making this.

[joshuaimpson]

I am a 30-something college go-back, and I watch the yay math series quite a bit.  It covers plenty of relevant material, even on the collegiate level.  Ahdoot, is amazing, and his "professionalism" makes the subject much easier to follow.

To the presenter:  Bro! Keep up your work, you may be just a High School Math teacher (as you put it), but you've got the skills to lead a Math-e-me-nation!

[Boywithafishtank]

Math should be treated entirely differently than it is today in our education system. Math is a skill, it requires understanding and practice. What you will see teachers do, is judge the students for doing something wrong, even though they are trying. This demotivates the students, making them have bad experiences, traumas if you will, which leads to students trying to distance themselves from those experiences and in the end the subject itself. You punish people for doing something bad in hopes of making them stop that bad thing. When you use that method against students when they are studying, you are merely contradicting the fundamental principles of teaching. Because is trying to learn math bad? No, ABSOLUTELY not. Instead, you should let them keep trying, and when they get it right, reward them by saying "good job!" and not punish them when they're doing something wrong. Punishment is effective in discipline, but its not effective in teaching. Teaching should not involve discipline as long as the students stay interested and curious. Math is beautiful in the way it can make you feel succesful when completing something difficult, and how it can solve a ton of problems. Make the students feel that! Dont let them feel stupid for trying, because that is what they actually are SUPPOSED to do. Why most teachers cannot understand this simple concept, still troubles me.

[ingridzinde]

Thank you Mr Robert Ahdoot ...I'm taking maths I'm 58 years old teacher son I can share my skills with all my students ...thanks to you. ..I'd love this to benefit all beautiful Souls ...just like my dear Friend Mr Francis Tsuro who supports me on this journey he encourages me having both of you ! HAVING YOU YAY MATHS TEACHR IM BLESSED😊INGRID ZINDE SOUTH AFRICA PRETORIA, MAMELODI EAST. 😊

[sabriswish]

been watching yaymath since 6th grade, hs senior now. Cant count how many times his youtube channel saved me, and even today.

[Onlybellanati]

I am so thankful for Yay Math. I recently returned to college after 20 years, and have found passing my math classes difficult, yet watching these videos gave me a relaxed perspective where my mind actually has had "light bulb" moments to pass many of my exams. Yay Math!!

[greyeyedone_]

The world of education needs more teachers like He has really helped me during my college math classes... Thank you Mr

[yaymath]

Definitely would make me have anxiety, having my wrong answer so put down.

[lburget]

I suppose it's easier to pay attention in math class when you have a cute, agreeable, relatable math teacher like this guy. Good info.

[DanWLarsen]

Robert, you sir, are a stud. Thank you for your inspired work. Your videos helped me personally and for that I am very grateful.

[hikingdivanerd]

thank you so much your videos are awesome. being in my thirties going back to college I had to conquer math since I didn't take math since high school and that wasn't a pleasant experience I barely passed math, just enough to graduate.now in college, your videos help me in my pre algebra, intermediate algebra and now college algebra 1. I've watched your videos the whole way along. thank you for addressing math anxiety I remember in my intermediate algebra class walking out in the middle of a test because of a panic attack thinking there was something wrong with me.

[Petrenko]

I just want to thank you for helping me and so many others who are terrified of math! You are such an inspiration and I just wish that all math teachers were as passionate, creative, and dedicated as you!

[Sam-cqyr]

Robert Adhoot, you are awesome! I wish I did have one great teacher like you in school, things would of been so different now.
I am a continuing student, who had Anxiety math back in high school, and now I still have it in college, but watching your videos has really changed math for me and I'm really starting to understand it and enjoy it, all thanks to you.
I'm grateful there are people like you out in the world.
Thank you, Mr Adhoot.
Samuel

[Lahodsta]

He is a great YouTube teacher him and my math ap changed my view on math you guys really should cheek out yay math in YouTube if you guys are struggling