Episode 11: Mathematics Anxiety - what do we know, and what can we do? (Part 2 of 2)
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Articles referred to in this episode: (Same as in Ep 10)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/ulterior-motives/202104/is-math-anxiety-real
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/finding-the-next-einstein/201511/why-some-math-anxiety-might-actually-be-good-thing
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/maths/MTT_Mathematics_Anxiety.pdf
In the last part of the episode, reference was made to Prof Jo Boaler at Stanford University, and this course: https://www.edx.org/course/how-to-learn-math-for-students-2
Her main website is YouCubed.org
Of course, some kids do have clinical learning disabilities that are not caused by anxiety, cultural myths, or poor teaching. Developmental dyscalculia, a clinical term for someone who has a math-related learning disability, affects about 3 to 7 percent of the population. This is the lesser-known analog of dyslexia, a learning disability related to reading, and the two conditions often occur together.
The paragraph above appears in this article by Elizabeth Landau from August 2022:
I'd recommend this article: https://nautil.us/are-all-brains-good-at-math-238539/
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