Vanessa Vakharia aka The Math Guru

👀 The #MathTherapy tour starts next week! What city am I seeing you in this fall?! 🗺️👇

Where else can you see @themathguru.bsky.social and other math A-listers for this price!?!
Join us at the 2025 ICTM Conference: Building Connected Relationships with Math.
🔗 www.iowamath.org
#iowamathteach #iowamath #iowamathstandards #MTBoS

I love this SO much!!!!!!!!

So excited to be a part of this!!!

Exactly!!!!!!!!! She’s doing ALL THE MATH!!

(Mathematical) Proof that Taylor Swift is a math girlie at heart 💁‍♀️✨

Not Taylor Swift reversing decades of bad PR for math in under 13 seconds on Travis Kelce’s podcast yesterday! August 13th is officially the day math entered its reputation era LFG 💅 ✨

CANNOT WAIIIIIIIT

We are so excited to learn from @themathguru.bsky.social at #ATMNE25. Come join us in October. Register at atmim.net/event-5937758 @atmnemath.bsky.social

Could NOT be more excited to keynote this one for @iowamathteach.bsky.social & hang w @ddmeyer.bsky.social + John SanGiovanni 🤩 PS this conference colour palette is VIBES✨💖 I’ve never been to Iowa, what do I need to know?!

🙏 to CP24 for inviting me to talk about why we should NOT give kids math worksheets this summer, and do this instead👇

If there was one thing you could change about the way math is taught in schools, what would it be?

LETSGOOOOOO @camttx.bsky.social!!! Catch me + @pgliljedahl.bsky.social on stage AND at QEP Books where we’ll be signing books! Who am I seeing in Texas next week + also HOW am I supposed to pack for this 105 degree situation?!🤠🥵 #edusky

You’re not bad at math💖 #iteachmath

How Math Therapy changed my entire life w/ Charizma Laughton - Math Therapy As long as Charizma Laughton can remember, her entire life was defined by a singular identity: she's bad at math, because she's not smart.  This self-image was rooted in deeply traumatic math cla...

She swore she was bad at math.
She believed she wasn’t smart.

2 weeks of Math Therapy later?

She calls herself a mathematician 💅

This episode will change how you see math and your students:
🎧 shorturl.at/5T6GZ

#edusky

🚨New ep of the Math Therapy Podcast ✨How to trust your intuition✨ is out now! If you’re a teacher, I want to hear from you: how do you empower students to trust their intuition in your classroom?! ✨👇 #edusky

Who said math has to be cold, hard logic? In this week’s ep of Math Therapy, I’m flipping the script with an intuitive healer - because math isn’t just numbers, it’s who you are.
Listen now: shorturl.at/4Y3Kz 💥🧠💫 #edusky

How to trust your intuition w/ Rebecca MacLeod - Math Therapy First of all, big news: as of this fall, Math Therapy will be a weekly podcast!  This has long been a goal, so after 6 glorious 10-episode seasons and a bunch of bonus eps along the way, we'll be...

🚨🎙️The wait is over: ✨Math Therapy✨ is BACK! Math doesn’t have to be cold & calculated. In this week’s podcast episode, we explore how math can actually awaken your intuition - and how your intuition can help you do math. This one’s for your soul ✨ #edusky
🎧 www.maththerapypodcast.com/1734392/epis...

This is a lifechanging goal + I can’t wait to see what the the ⭐️s have to say the next time we meet:)

#litmath25 #litmath2025

What a special time at @ncte.org / @nctm.org. Thank you to all of you who are working so hard to help those around you heal their math trauma & build healthy, happy relationships with math. The world is a better place with you in it🙏💖✌️

It was so nice spending time with the celeb-math-couple tag team:) 👯‍♀️

Ryan and Courtney with Vanessa Vakharia.

Ryan and Courtney with Monique Pollitt.

A photo of friends at the NCTE/NCTM conference in Chicago.

What a fun first day a #LitMath25. Thank you @nctm.org and @ncte.org for hosting! (Post 1 of 2 - Monday morning!) @cfless.bsky.social @themathguru.bsky.social @mnmmath.bsky.social @jlmilleric.bsky.social @drnickinewton.bsky.social @tjmath.bsky.social @nankinator.bsky.social @moniquepollitt

Title slide for Math Therapy, closing keynote

Vanessa on stage presenting- in a shiny pink robe

Quotes of sessions presenters from the FCTM conference

The time has come! First time being quoted by a conference keynote!!!
#FCTM2025
#Math #ITeachMath

An image of a spoon of salt spilling into a glass of water

We can dilute unproductive thoughts with MORE productive thoughts!
@themathguru.bsky.social

TJ, Vanessa, and Laura sitting at the FCTM opening session

Kicking off the #FCTM25 conference in style!

Rumour has it that Matt Vaudrey grows his hair into a mullet JUST to deliver this epic mullet math lesson ( @burgessdave.bsky.social just outed you at FCTM Matt, and now we all want pics 👩‍🎤)

What math propaganda are you not falling for? Throw it in the comments🙅‍♀️👇 #notfallingforit

Getting emotionally ready to pack for FCTM + wondering what all these red lines mean?? 🫣