Yes, it’s a math test. And you know that your math anxiety means you’re almost certain to fail…which makes you even more anxious and more likely to fail.

New research suggests anxiety can make students avoid engaging in math, even when they could gain big rewards from doing so. But a separate study also offers a simple way teachers can help math ...

About 270 students enrolled in basic math classes at the Western campus of Cuyahoga Community College in Parma are participating in a study to examine math test stress and anxiety, and ways to ...

We typically think of math anxiety as universally bad for math learning, but a team of scholars have now discovered that the relationship between math anxiety and learning is much more complex ...

Anxiety may drive people to avoid difficult math problems, even if the rewards are high, scientists reported this week. They found that this avoidance may hold people back from accessing immediate ...

The US faces a growing math crisis, with nearly 40% of eighth graders and a quarter of fourth graders struggling with proficiency. Math anxiety plays a key role, eroding confidence and creating ...

Emotional and cognitive factors in learning, including math anxiety, were scheduled to be explored at a seminar in San Francisco this weekend at the annual meeting of the American Association for ...

The test assesses students’ knowledge in math, reading, language arts, science and social studies. The classroom is quiet, ...