{"podcast":{"title":"Chalk & Talk","slug":"chalk-talk-6066907","podcast_index_feed_id":6066907,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/chalkandtalkpodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15991035/Chalk_and_talk_logo.png","author":"Anna Stokke","episode_count":78,"summary":"Everyone wants to see children and young adults succeed in math, but it can be difficult to sort myths from facts in education. Join math professor, Anna Stokke, for conversations with leading educators about the importance of math, effective teaching methods, and debunking common myths about math and teaching. Chalk & Talk is a podcast for anyone interested in education, including educators, parents and students.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T20:17:13.151018+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-talk-6066907"},"episode":{"title":"Why students struggle in math and how to fix it with Barbara Oakley and John Mighton (Ep 61)","slug":"why-students-struggle-in-math-and-how-to-fix-it-with-barbara-oakley-and-john-mighton-ep-61","published_at":"2025-12-19T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-talk-6066907/why-students-struggle-in-math-and-how-to-fix-it-with-barbara-oakley-and-john-mighton-ep-61","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-talk-6066907","url":"https://chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com/e/why-students-struggle-in-math-and-how-to-fix-it-with-barbara-oakley-and-john-mighton-ep-61/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fz6bg3578shr5e53/Chalk_Talk_Ep_61_-_Final9avxk.mp3","summary":"In this episode, Anna is joined by two familiar guests, mathematician and founder of JUMP Math, Dr. John Mighton, and learning expert and bestselling author Dr. Barbara Oakley. They discuss their new Coursera course, Making Math Click: Understanding Math Without Fear, what learning science reveals about how students learn math, and why practice and worked examples play such a critical role in building math confidence. They discuss schemas, give some cautionary advice about using manipulatives and concrete-pictorial-abstract approaches, and explain why moving quickly from concrete to abstract matters. They describe what’s at stake when math education fails, what’s lost when students don’t develop foundational skills, and what it will take to help more learners succeed in math. This is a practical, engaging, and insightful episode for teachers, parents, university students, and anyone who has ever felt they weren’t a math person. This episode is also available in video at www.youtube.com/@chalktalk-stokke Making Math Click: Understand Math Without Fear: Free course with certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/math-click?action=showPartnerSupportedAccess TIMESTAMPS [00:00:22] Introduction [00:05:40] How Barbara’s background shaped her approach to math [00:07:00] John’s experience with math from a young age [00:09:21] John and Barbara’s Coursera course [00:11:07] Who is their course for? [00:15:45] Is the course beneficial for teachers? [00:21:54] What math and Sylvia Plath’s writing have in common [00:23:51] Building schemas in math [00:26:46] Getting good at math leads to liking math [00:31:08] Kaminsky’s research on manipulatives vs. abstract representations [00:33:39] Fading from concrete to abstract [00:40:30] Barbara’s article in the Seattle Times [00:42:30] Real…","meta_description":"In this episode, Anna is joined by two familiar guests, mathematician and founder of JUMP Math, Dr. John Mighton, and learning expert and bestselling auth…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4090,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/chalk-talk-6066907/episodes/why-students-struggle-in-math-and-how-to-fix-it-with-barbara-oakley-and-john-mighton-ep-61/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/chalk-talk-6066907/why-students-struggle-in-math-and-how-to-fix-it-with-barbara-oakley-and-john-mighton-ep-61.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}