2022 Teaching & Assessment Symposium
Impacts & Implications of Math Anxiety: Intel from a College Population
Location
Virtual
Description
Math anxiety is defined as apprehension and/or anxiety related to thinking about or performing math that interferes with solving math problems and negatively affects math performance (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001; Richardson & Suinn, 1972). Individuals with high math anxiety experience pain network neural activation when thinking about doing math, suggesting that for highly math anxious students, math can produce feelings like pain (Lyons & Beilock, 2012). Math anxiety is prevalent in students from all contexts but may have effects for those within specific demographic groups, particularly marginalized groups such as historically excluded racial groups, women, and first-generation students. This presentation will discuss the results of a study exploring the relationships between math attitudinal variables, namely math anxiety and math self-efficacy and implications for student learning.
Impacts & Implications of Math Anxiety: Intel from a College Population
Virtual
Math anxiety is defined as apprehension and/or anxiety related to thinking about or performing math that interferes with solving math problems and negatively affects math performance (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001; Richardson & Suinn, 1972). Individuals with high math anxiety experience pain network neural activation when thinking about doing math, suggesting that for highly math anxious students, math can produce feelings like pain (Lyons & Beilock, 2012). Math anxiety is prevalent in students from all contexts but may have effects for those within specific demographic groups, particularly marginalized groups such as historically excluded racial groups, women, and first-generation students. This presentation will discuss the results of a study exploring the relationships between math attitudinal variables, namely math anxiety and math self-efficacy and implications for student learning.
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