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math anxiety
Imagine this. I'm talking with people I've never met before, say at a college reception. They're all articulate, accomplished: a sociologist, a biologist, a psychologist, and a historian. "What do you do?" someone eventually asks me politely. I say "Mathematics" and they all start trembling.
Parental expectations could be part of the problem, a new study says.
I have to say I'm "50-something" -- not because I'm shy about my age, but because I can't always remember exactly how old I am. It's a number, and numbers and I haven't always been exactly on speaking terms.
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A study shows that parents can give their kids math anxiety.
I do not hate math. I respect math. I did well in math. But because I've not used many math skills beyond the basics in my adult life, I've often questioned our education system's obsession with math and its dominance in our classrooms.
Here's a gift to everybody out there, students and teachers and especially parents, who might still be befuddled about some of the more puzzling things that came up in math class. This is why the teacher said what she said.
