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Article: Teachers have the power to alleviate math anxiety.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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Abstract
Many students suffer from math anxiety, but teachers can incorporate skills to alleviate it for their students. In order to alleviate math anxiety teachers first and foremost need to portray a positive, enthusiastic, helpful attitude, which communicates a love and usefulness for mathematics. Math curriculum should be designed that deepens student understanding in a practical, engaging and fun way. Pedagogy should be implemented that moves from the explain-practice-memorize strategy to strategies that stress reasoning and understanding. A classroom culture that prompts student inquisition, discovery, learning and the exploration of ideas needs to replace ...