Services to Support Math Needs

Compassionate Math provides consultations and services based on the idea that learning mathematics is both an intellectual and emotional challenge – you can’t move forward intellectually if you don’t address negative emotions. And a person’s negative emotions are not due to their own personal flaws, they are due many factors including the Cycle of Benign Neglect. Now, many students (and teachers) are math anxious, are taught that they are not “math people”, are made to feel like they don’t belong in a math classroom, or have negative feelings towards math. The Compassionate Math framework supports math teachers and learners to understand that many societal factors affect how people feel about math and their math performance. In other words, your feelings towards math aren’t necessarily your fault. After all, human beings are mathematical beings.