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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I see it every fall: A student suddenly needs to go to the bathroom mid-lesson. Another zones out completely, distracting nearby ...

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 ...

The LA Times reports on a study suggesting that female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math transmit that anxiety to the girls in their classes: Girls have long embraced the ...

Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but more than a third report having ...

It’s something this middle school math teacher heard often. But Gerilyn Williams was determined to change that. So the math teacher at Pinelands Regional Junior High School in Little Egg Harbor, N.J., ...

64% of Americans experience math anxiety, with middle school being the most common time for onset (34%), and women reporting higher rates (70%) than men (57%). Math anxiety creates real barriers in ...

We typically think of math anxiety as universally bad for math learning, but a team of scholars have now discovered that the relationship between math anxiety and learning is much more complex. Based ...

Studies estimate that roughly one quarter to one third of students experience math anxiety, a psychological condition that often goes undetected until it has already undermined their performance.

Maureen Lamb, a teacher at Kingswood Oxford School in Connecticut, can see the telltale signs of test anxiety the moment her students enter the classroom. “They're flustered,” she said. “And there's a ...