Math Anxiety: Personal, Educational, and Cognitive Consequences

摘要: Highly math-anxious individuals are characterized by a strong tendency to avoid math, which ultimately undercuts their math competence and forecloses important career paths. But timed, on-line tests reveal math-anxiety effects on whole-number arithmetic problems (e.g., 46 + 27), whereas achievement show no differences. Math anxiety disrupts cognitive processing compromising ongoing activity in working memory. Although the causes of undetermined, some teaching styles implicated as risk factors. We need research origins its “signature” brain activity, examine both emotional components.