Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...

64% of Americans experience math anxiety, with middle school being the most common time for onset (34%), and women reporting ...

In his autobiography, psychologist S. S. Stevens (1974) relates how he spent his undergraduate years at Stanford assiduously avoiding math and sciences classes. He enjoyed the humanities, especially ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

Many elementary teachers have math anxiety stemming from their own schooling, which can impact their students' math performance. Ohio colleges are working to better prepare future teachers by focusing ...

Timed math fluency exercises—in which students are asked to solve a certain number of problems within a minute or two—do not appear to exacerbate students’ math anxiety, new research finds. The study, ...

I see it every fall: A student suddenly needs to go to the bathroom mid-lesson. Another zones out completely, distracting nearby classmates during a lesson. Tears well up as a child struggles with a ...

For many people, the sight of numbers, equations, or even a simple calculation can trigger a feeling of panic. A fast beating ...

Math anxiety, which can begin as early as kindergarten, negatively affects students’ math performance both in the moment and throughout their math education. Most research focuses on the affective or ...