A nontraditional teaching strategy is also helping teens at the southern Utah school connect with their fellow classmates.

Parents who fear math may easily pass that anxiety on to their children. (Photo: Corbis) “Numbers scare me.” “I’m not a math person.” “I hate math.” If you’re one of the many parents who have been ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. Math anxiety doesn’t just make students choke on tests. It ...

No matter the age, there's one school subject that just doesn't add up for many people, and trying to solve it can bring nerves and even fear. Balancing weights, measuring steps and stacking blocks ...

If Levi Vaughan, a 5-year-old kindergartner in Braidwood, Ill., makes it through math class without a meltdown, it’s a good day. The transition to school has been tough in other ways for Levi, said ...

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As national math scores continue to drop, many parents are left wondering how to ignite a spark for math in their kids.

Children of math-anxious parents learned less math over the school year and were more likely to be math-anxious themselves—but only when these parents provided frequent help on the child’s math ...

It's an old joke that there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't. Mathematics anxiety is a feeling of tension and fear when dealing with numbers or ...

“Math anxiety” is an actual term to describe students who struggle with math because they become anxious when having to take math tests or do math problems in class or for homework. One might believe ...

Your mouth is dry. Your armpits are wet. Your brain is neither dry nor wet, but seems to be leaking out your ears. You feel your vision closing to a pinprick around a jumble of symbols that might as ...