Description
As our society becomes more technologically advanced, math understanding and aptitude continues to take on a more central role. Consequently, lack of math skills can diminish a student’s future job prospects, and a number of students, for many different reasons, develop a self-identity as a poor math student that allows them to cope with a lack of math success. However, research has shown that as many as 80% of those students that believe they lack innate math competency actually, in fact, have reasonably adequate math skills, and are hindered more by their own belief in their mathematical inadequacy than by some fundamental math disability. By using empirically-tested general- and math-anxiety treatment methods, it is possible to help students treat this “math anxiety,” and this is the foundation of the included math anxiety manual. The project will result in the creation of a manual that will offer students ways for understanding and coping with math anxiety.
