How to Learn to Love Math feat. Mina Neuberg

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

Comedy, Education

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week on Schauer Thoughts we have a special guest - please give a warm welcome to Mina Neuberg, CEO of WonderMath! Also, this episode is NOT an ad, I am not being paid, I just really love math and wanted to discuss learning and executive functioning with the executive putting the “fun” in functional learning. No but seriously, math is incredibly important and I appreciate y’all listening and *hopefully* expanding the communal comfort zone! Learn More About WonderMath: https://www.wondermath.com/ Where to Reach Mina: mina@wondermath.com New Book Club Information: https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-book-for-143088045 Resources: What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice & Change - Emily Falk The Power of Fun - Catherine Price Mathematics for Human Flourishing - Francis Su Is Math Real? - Eugenia Cheng The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone - Philip Fernbach Neural correlates of hate https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18958169/ What Is Hate and Where Does It Live in the Brain? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-on-food/202208/what-is-hate-and-where-does-it-live-in-the-brain The premotor cortex https://www.physio-pedia.com/Premotor_Cortex#:~:text=The%20premotor%20cortex%20is%20a,of%20the%20contralateral%20hemisphere%20alone. Behavioral energetics in human locomotion: how energy use influences how we move https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11993254/ Demonstration and Pantomime in the Evolution of Teaching https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5361109/ Total Physical Response (TPR) - Teaching Method https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392376539_Total_Physical_Response_TPR Screen Apnea https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-screens-cause-shallow-breathing Olfactory Enrichment to Improve Memory https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10405466/ What the Thalamus Does https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2012/3/12.03.02/4#:~:text=In%20this%20way%2C%20the%20thalamus%20is%20screening,matters%20of%20value%20and%20filtering%20out%20distractions. This is How the Brain Filters Out Unimportant Details https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-babble/201502/is-how-the-brain-filters-out-unimportant-details#:~:text=This%20%E2%80%9Creciprocal%E2%80%9D%20connectivity%20can%20be,popcorn%2C%20and%20air%20conditioning). Movement-Based Learning: Students Need to Use Their Bodies to Learn https://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies/2025/03/movement-based-learning-students-need-to-use-their-bodies-to-learn/ Math Has Its Own Language. How Can Students Learn to Speak It? https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/math-has-its-own-language-how-can-students-learn-to-speak-it/2024/09 Conceived linearities in mathematics education and how to disrupt them https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14794802.2025.2579307?src=#d1e125 How Did You Solve It? Metacognition in Mathematics https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/how-did-you-solve-it-metacognition-in-mathematics Writing Problems in Possessive Form https://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-grammar/forming-possessive/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:03.0	Not much to it is there?
0:06.0	Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:16.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious. Hi, guys. My name is Sarah Shower, and this is Shower Thoughts, a podcast for left and right
0:32.4	brainers.
0:33.0	We have a special guest in the studio today.
0:35.6	Her name is Mina Newberg.
0:36.8	She is the CEO of WonderMath.
0:38.9	And how are you doing? I'm great. I'm so excited to be here. I am so excited to have you here.
0:44.5	You don't even understand. So can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do with WonderMath?
0:48.6	Sure. Yeah. So I am, as you mentioned, the CEO of Wonder Math. I've been doing that for a couple years. I'm also a mom before. And I got involved with Wonder Math really as a parent at first. And my background is in marketing, a kind of combination of psychology and business. And when my oldest daughter was in third grade, she told me she just wasn't a math kid. And I don't know about for you, but for me, like a lot, that brought up a lot of kind of when I grew up feeling like, yeah, it was okay, I didn't really need to be a math kid. It was okay if I kind of stuck with the things that I liked, like psychology, and math could really be secondary. And then as I got older, I ended up deciding to go to business school. That kind of
1:28.7	fear of math or avoidance of math that I grew up with really started defining a lot of the choices
1:33.6	that I made. And, you know, it made me decide I didn't want to go into finance or I didn't want to
1:38.1	STEM-based major. And, you know, hearing my third graders say that really reminded me of that experience and then
1:45.9	therefore as a mom made me decide, we cannot do this again.
1:49.2	Like we really need to make a different change.
1:52.5	And so for my daughter, I ended up finding wonder math and putting her in wonder math.
1:57.3	And I found that it really transformed not just her math skills, but really the way
2:01.6	that she thought of herself and her confidence around math. And I ended up getting more and more
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