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- Report examines origins and nature of 'math anxiety' https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-03-nature-math-anxiety.html 57 comments
- Teacher anxieties may subtract from girls’ math scores http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55590/title/Teacher_anxieties_may_subtract__from_girls%E2%80%99_math_scores 13 comments
- Parents' Math Anxiety Is Contagious to Their Kids http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/24/square-root-of-kids-math-anxiety-their-parents-help/ 75 comments
- Female teachers transmit math anxiety to female students http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/01/female-teachers-math-anxiety-influences-female-students.ars 19 comments
- Math Anxiety: Why Hollywood Makes Robots of Alan Turing and Other Geniuses http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/how-hollywood-portrays-alan-turing-and-other-math-geniuses/?_r=0&ref=technology 21 comments
- Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/09/12/math-anxiety-causes-trouble-students-early-first-grade 21 comments
- Unraveling the role of math anxiety in students’ math performance https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365286497_Unraveling_the_role_of_math_anxiety_in_students%27_math_performance 16 comments science
- A new meta-analysis in Psych Bull suggests that there is a robust negative relationship between measures of math anxiety and math performance. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ulterior-motives/202104/is-math-anxiety-real 7 comments cogsci
- How do you get over Math anxiety? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/an3fop/how_do_you_get_over_math_anxiety/ 24 comments math
- Math Anxiety? A Reporter Knows the Subject All Too Well [NYTimes] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/insider/math-anxiety-a-reporter-knows-the-subject-all-too-well.html 3 comments math
- Parents' math anxiety can undermine children's math achievement, Study says http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/08/06/0956797615592630 211 comments science
- Exploring the Link Between Math Anxiety and Math Achievement https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661324001906 2 comments science
- Anyone out there with a history of math anxiety? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7bdnjx/anyone_out_there_with_a_history_of_math_anxiety/ 11 comments math
- New research showing math anxiety lessened by transcranial electrical stimulation http://brainstates.org/2015/01/04/mathematics-anxiety-and-brain-stimulation/ 4 comments science
- Female teachers transmit math anxiety to female students http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/01/female-teachers-math-anxiety-influences-female-students.ars 6 comments math
- Teachers and too much work are responsible for math anxiety in students, large study across 54 countries finds https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2115855119 4 comments science
- Stop telling kids you’re bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety ‘like a virus.’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/04/25/stop-telling-kids-youre-bad-at-math-you-are-spreading-math-anxiety-like-a-virus/?postshare=4411484584871873&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a22b67061c8e 1510 comments math
- Math Anxiety: Why Hollywood Makes Robots of Alan Turing and Other Geniuses http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/how-hollywood-portrays-alan-turing-and-other-math-geniuses/?ref=technology&_r=1 8 comments math
- Experiencing math anxiety may be like the experience of physical pain http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/11/triggering-math-anxiety-may-be-like-the-experience-of-physical-pain/ 4 comments science
- Girls May Learn Math Anxiety From Female Teachers http://abcnews.go.com/technology/wirestory?id=9657816 3 comments reddit.com
- Female Educators Teach Math Anxiety to Girls http://news.discovery.com/human/girls-math-anxiety-teachers.html 95 comments math
- Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_sc/us_sci_fear_of_figures 38 comments science
- Dealing with failure and math-induced anxiety as a math major? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/5hkean/dealing_with_failure_and_mathinduced_anxiety_as_a/ 29 comments math
- Teachers and too much homework are responsible for math anxiety in students, large study across 54 countries finds https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2115855119 3 comments science
- People who tell themselves to get excited rather than trying to relax can improve their performance during anxiety-inducing activities such as public speaking and math tests. http://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2013/12/performance-anxiety.aspx 13 comments cogsci
- When students with high levels of math anxiety are worrying about doing the math, their worries take up valuable working memory resources which prevents them from using their working memory to actually complete the math problems efectively http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/abstracts/tr2017-825/ 12 comments science
- Anxiety related to mental rotation helps to explain the gender difference in math anxiety. https://www.psypost.org/2022/02/anxiety-related-to-mental-rotation-helps-to-explain-the-gender-difference-in-math-anxiety-62482 110 comments science
- How do you guys get over math anxiety before an exam or the day before an exam? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/afgpo0/how_do_you_guys_get_over_math_anxiety_before_an/ 13 comments math
- When people worry about math, the brain feels the pain. Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago. http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/10/31/when-people-worry-about-math-brain-feels-pain 19 comments science
- When people with high levels of math anxiety anticipate having to do math, they experience pain-related brain activity, researchers find http://www.uber-facts.com/2012/11/math-really-does-hurt/ 3 comments science
- Math anxiety linked with differences in brain functioning, study finds http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/24/math-anxiety_n_1371210.html 5 comments science
- New research provides evidence that parents’ feelings of anxiety and positive attitudes towards mathematics significantly impact their children’s early math skills. https://www.psypost.org/2023/12/a-parents-math-anxiety-predicts-their-childs-math-performance-but-the-reason-remains-a-mystery-214977 18 comments science
- New research highlights the role of maths interest in shaping STEM career choices | The research found that an individual’s interest in mathematics is a stronger predictor of STEM career choices than either their confidence in their mathematical abilities or their anxiety about the subject. https://www.psypost.org/new-research-highlights-the-role-of-maths-interest-in-shaping-stem-career-choices/ 2 comments science
- Reconceptualizing stress as a coping tool improves students’ performance on upcoming math exams. Students who read about the adaptive benefits of stress before taking their math exam reported lower math anxiety and earned higher test scores. https://www.psypost.org/2022/01/reconceptualizing-stress-as-a-coping-tool-improves-students-performance-on-upcoming-math-exam-62361 3 comments science
- In a Stanford study (N=332), higher levels of math anxiety were linked with a tendency to select easier, low-reward problems over harder, high-reward math problems. "You can’t even pay math-anxious individuals to do hard problems," said a researcher. https://www.inverse.com/article/61092-math-anxiety-bad-decisions 23 comments science
- Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade. Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/09/12/math-anxiety-causes-trouble-students-early-first-grade 345 comments science