Math anxiety is the feeling of tension and fear that many people experience when called on to work out a sum. For children, it can lead to behavioral problems in class, as well as physical symptoms ...

For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained ...

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For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...

Math problems make more than a few students—and even teachers—sweat, but new brain research is providing insights into the earliest causes of the anxiety so often associated with mathematics. Experts ...

Rebecca Zook, a professional math tutor, says it’s okay to recognize the “fear” of math. She says, “A recent study actually found that students did better when they wrote about their fears before ...

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 ...

Kinga Morsanyi received funding from the Royal Society to carry out this research. Carlo Tomasetto received funding from The Royal Society to carry out this research. Paddy O'Connor and Veronica ...