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Math--that four-letter word!
Abstract
Math anxiety is extremely prevalent in the general population, but tends to have gender and age as key aspects to occurrence. A factor in this may be that many elementary teachers tend to be math phobic. This paper looks at two returning adult college students who participated in a Math Anxiety Workshop as well as follow-up mathematics tutoring and their battles with math anxiety.
Introduction
As an instructor of preservice teachers, I am always faced with instances of math anxiety in my students. I teach classes in mathematics methods of instruction to both prospective secondary and elementary teachers. Interestingly, even the ...
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