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San Francisco: Worrying about how you will perform on a math test may actually contribute to a lower test score, US researchers said on Saturday. Math anxiety - feelings of dread and fear and avoiding ...

Getting something wrong is never a good feeling. And for people with math anxiety, one wrong answer could spiral into a lifetime of avoided opportunities and limited choices. “It is the vicious cycle ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Sabrina Colon, a first-year student at University of California, Merced, remembers when math first became a problem. She says she’s not a math person, but she was able to pass her high school math ...

The math gap is an educational problem and an economic warning we cannot afford to ignore. When children enter school lacking a grasp of the language of math, they are set on a difficult path of ...

Do we need to reimagine how we teach math? If AI will be as ubiquitous as we believe it to be, will its inevitability require a pronounced emphasis in math throughout our education system? While it ...

Many students might say anxiety about a class inhibits their ability to perform well. In the case of mathematics, they would be correct. A growing field of psychological research says math anxiety can ...