Math Anxiety: What You Can Do about It.

Tobias, Sheila

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ERIC Number: EJ237769

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1980

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Math Anxiety: What You Can Do about It.

Tobias, Sheila

Today's Education, v69 n3 p26-29 Sep-Oct 1980

Although mathematics avoidance and mathematics anxiety are not unknown among men and boys, stressful experiences with mathematics are particularly pronounced in girls and women. Many educating and governing institutions will have to work together if efforts to alleviate mathematics anxiety are to pay off. (CJ)

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Fear of Success, Females, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Vocabulary, Mathematics Anxiety, Problem Solving, Stress Variables, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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