Treatments for Math Anxiety

§ October 21st, 2011 § 2 Comments- Add yours§ Filed under From the Elevated Math Team, Overcoming Fear § Tagged anxiety, Cerebral Cortex, Elevated Math, fear, Lewis Hall, math, phobia, Sian L. Beilock

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A study published yesterday in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests some potential treatments for math anxiety. See the Education Week blog.

In prior research, the author Sian L. Beilock found that just the thought of doing math problems can trigger stress responses in people with math anxiety, and adult teachers can pass their trepidation about math on to their students.

One of the earliest posts on this blog was on Handling Math Phobia. This subject is worth revisiting.

The study released yesterday shows that students who are anxious about math yet perform well have a high activity in the frontal and parietal regions of the brain when they learn a math problem is coming up. § Read the rest of this entry…