New survey findings suggest children may be absorbing anxiety about numbers from parents long before exam pressure kicks in.

Getting early-childhood educators more comfortable with teaching math was the focus of a summer workshop held by the Erikson Institute in Chicago, Ill. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The ...

For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained ...

For many people, the sight of numbers, equations, or even a simple calculation can trigger a feeling of panic. A fast beating ...

The Big Apple is trying out a new equation to help boost sagging math scores. City officials unveiled a new public school math curriculum Monday aimed at helping students overcome their “fear of math” ...

Mothers tend to pass on their own anxiety over mathematics to their daughters, creating a gender gap of confidence in the ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Colorado Mesa University held a screening of the documentary “Counted Out” on April 21. The film goes into the unseen ways math affects everyday lives of people around ...

A little stress can motivate, but teachers increasingly report their students’ fears over math interfere with their learning. In a nationally representative survey conducted this spring, nearly all ...

People look puzzled whenever I share that I never attended one math class while a student at Milton Union High School. No Pre-algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, or Trigonometry. When in grade ...