Math Anxiety – Is There A Dark Cloud Over Your Childs Math Work?
Are you tired of the yelling and cajoling to get your child to do his Math work? Are you tired of the tears of frustration as your child struggles to learn math and do math problems he does not understand? Are you tired of feeling helpless to help your child understand his math work, because you were never good at math in school? Are you tired of the complaints that math is boring and tedious and totally unrelated to anything in real life? Why is this? What is it about math that causes such pain and anxiety, turmoil and fighting, tears and anger? Is it math or our own fears of failure, of not being very good at math ourselves? Is it math or is it the method that we employ to teach math to our children? Is it math or an illusion of catastrophe if our child does not become proficient in this skill? In a series of three articles on Math Anxiety, I will be addressing these points. Personally, I dont think it is math. Math is ancient. People have been learning math for centuries. Even in th
