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What to do if your kid needs extra help in math
City TV - Breakfast Television, October 4, 2017Television
URL: http://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/what-to-do-if-your-kid-needs-extra-help-in-math/
How to help your kids prepare for exams
City TV - Breakfast Television, January 9, 2018Television
URL: http://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/how-to-help-your-kids-prepare-for-exams/
What's wrong with the way we teach math?
CBC - Metro Morning, August 31, 2017Radio/Podcast
Is tutoring worth it?
CBC - Metro Morning, February 28, 2018Radio/Podcast
I'm sick of beauty vs brains messaging
Yummy Mummy Club, July 25, 2017Print
How to encourage girls to love STEM
Huffington Post, August 17, 2017Print
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/08/17/girls-stem_a_23078434/
Biography
Vanessa Vakharia is the founder and director of The Math Guru, a boutique math & science tutoring studio in Toronto. She has her Bachelor's of Commerce, Teaching Degree, Diploma in Graphic Design and Master's in Math Education. She specializes in teenage engagement in mathematics education, with a focus on encouraging young women to pursue STEM related fields as well as reinventing media representations of females as they intersect with math. Vakharia travels globally, engaging audiences with her workshop, “Imagining a World Where Kim Kardashian Loves Math,” encouraging teenagers, teachers, and everyone to re-interpret and re-invent traditional stereotypes of what it means to be a “math person.” She is also a founding member of Goodnight, Sunrise, a rock n roll band where she plays the keytar and belts lead vocals.