Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests. I still remember how visceral my panic felt–sweaty palms, heart pounding–as I scrambled to recall facts before the clock ran out. You might ...

I see it every fall: A student suddenly needs to go to the bathroom mid-lesson. Another zones out completely, distracting nearby classmates during a lesson. Tears well up as a child struggles with a ...

Las matemáticas. Die Mathematik. Mathematics. No matter the language, the word "math" can cause people everywhere to fill up with boredom, dread, and even anxiety. The problem is so bad that there’s ...

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

This story is part of a series from the Education Reporting Collaborative in partnership with AL.com. At the Erikson Institute, a child-development-focused graduate school in Chicago, this annual ...

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Each time Xiuwen Wu greets a new class of preservice teachers studying math education at National Louis University in Wheeling, Ill., she asks them to take a survey. It asks about the future teachers’ ...

Math anxiety affects roughly 25 percent of students, which can prevent them from learning and taking more advanced mathematics courses. Fear around the subject can include being in a math class, ...

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 ...

From March 15, more than 1 million young Australians will sit the NAPLAN numeracy test. For most students, this will just be a routine part of the school day (albeit less fun than running around at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes ...