Math Anxiety Who Has It, Why It Develops, and How to Guard against It

For people with math anxiety, opening a math textbook or even entering a math classroom can trigger a negative emotional response, but it does not stop there. Activities such as reading a cash register receipt can send those with math anxiety into a panic. Math anxiety is an adverse emotional reacti...

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Published inThe Best Writing on Mathematics 2013 Vol. 4; pp. 143 - 148
Main Authors Maloney, Erin A, Beilock, Sian L
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Princeton University Press 19.01.2014
Subjects
Academic accomplishments
Academic achievement
Academic aptitude
Academic education
Anxiety
Applied psychology
Behavioral sciences
Children
Cognitive psychology
Curricula
Education
Educational psychology
Elementary school curricula
Elementary school mathematics
Emotion
Emotional states
Formal education
Human populations
Mathematical aptitude
MATHEMATICS
Mathematics achievement
Mathematics anxiety
Mathematics curricula
Mathematics education
Memory
Pedagogy
Persons
Popular science
Population studies
Psychology
Science education
Secondary school mathematics
Social sciences
Student anxiety
Working memory
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Summary:For people with math anxiety, opening a math textbook or even entering a math classroom can trigger a negative emotional response, but it does not stop there. Activities such as reading a cash register receipt can send those with math anxiety into a panic. Math anxiety is an adverse emotional reaction to math or the prospect of doing math [1]. Despite normal performance in most thinking and reasoning tasks, people with math anxiety perform poorly when numerical information is involved. Why is math anxiety tied to poor math performance? One idea is that math anxiety is simply a proxy for
ISBN:9780691160412
0691160414
DOI:10.1515/9781400847990-016