OVERCOMING MATH ANXIETY
Chapter 8. Overcoming Math Anxiety
If we can control our anxiety by recognizing its symptoms and coping with them, we can go far. How far do we want to go? Not far enough to become engineers or mathematicians, perhaps. But surely far enough so that our fear of math no longer makes decisions for us.
If the problem for many people in learning math is translating something they do not understand into language that makes sense to them, the presence of other people much like themselves will help immeasurably.
Math isn't done instantly. Successful students of math will read
through a math problem many times and only then settle on a course
of action. There is rarely just one right way to get an answer.
In fact, the more interesting mathematics comes from thinking
about how else one could have solved a problem. And as for mistakes, once students
get over the trauma of making them, mistakes can be "interesting."
Their impact on these students' lives...
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