SXSW EDU 2025
Prioritizing Mental Health In Mathematics With Curiosity
Description:
This session is an intergenerational conversation between a father and daughter who navigated learning in the pandemic and a diagnosis of severe anxiety/depression(Raya, my daughter). Failing mathematics in Grade 8 aided in the downward spiral. Whereas for me, mathematics allowed me to cope with her mental health issues, which became serious to perhaps a point of hospitalization. How mathematics specifically helped me will be shared in the session. Ironically, by the time Raya got to high school, mathematics also became a place of restorative energy/healing. This is our story.
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Takeaways
- Prioritization of mental health must be centered when learning and teaching mathematics, which means centring curiosity in the subject.
- That an internal vector for learning mathematics must begin to exist in education. Student identities can be strengthened by intrinsic motivations.
- The joy and beauty of mathematics from a student's point of view--who had a recent history of being alienated/traumatized by the subject.
Speakers
- Sunil Singh, Professional Development/Mathematics, Human Restoration Project
- Raya Singh, Student, Dunbarton High School
Organizer
Sunil Singh, Author/Mathematics Consultant/Music Promotor, Human Restoration Project
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