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Article 1: How to Overcome Math Anxiety, Deb Russel (March 20, 2019)
One of the ways to overcome Math anxiety is having positive attitude and confidence.
Also, if a student does not understand the lesson in Math, he should ask questions to his teacher
or tutor to further understand it. They can also ask for illustrations and demonstrations to provide
maximum retention. A student should not settle for anything less during instructions. Taking
good notes and practicing regularly the lessons in Math can help the student to improve his or her
Math skills and to prevent Math anxiety. Lastly, the students should be persistent and not be
It is related to our topic because this article tackles about how to overcome Math anxiety.
It also shows the common and effective ways to overcome this disease and that determination for
Article 2: Don’t Let Math Stress You Out, Evelyn Lamb (January 5, 2017)
According to Evelyn Lamb (2017) Math Anxiety affects people of all ages. It can prompt
horrible showing in Math classes. All through life, this stress can disrupt the general flow of
mastering skills or projects in a host of areas that rely on computations. But the researchers are
finding ways people can cope with this stress. In this article, it also tackles why Math is different
in all subjects. It was said that even among academic subjects, researchers note that when it
comes to anxiety, Math seems special. Ways on how to reduce Math anxiety was also tackled and
given by the author to help people with this kind of anxiety. They also gave some ways on how to
manage stress and what can parents and teachers do for this illness.
This article is relevant to our topic because this article shows how to overcome Math
anxiety through their confidence. It is also stated in the article that the students should focus on
One with Math anxiety can lead to nervousness when doing Math and this nervousness
can lead to Math anxiety. Still, one who excels at Math can still have Math anxiety. A researcher
had studied that China topped in Math even though the citizens there have higher level of Math
anxiety than in other countries. It is also said that even as a kid Math anxiety can also developed.
There was an experiment on elementary students about Math. It is whether they have or not this
kid is having trouble with Math, have Math anxiety. Surprisingly, almost half of them have
(Ludden, 2017).
This article is related to our topic because it shows how Math anxiety can affect any
people, even those who excel at Math. This illness can also affects young people so it should be
Related Studies
“Students Strategies for Overcoming Math Anxiety” explains the experience of those
people who has Math Anxiety. Math Anxiety is an acquired anxiety which can have a big impact
on learning but is it treatable. Mathematical resilience is a term used to describe a positive stance
towards mathematics where students overcome their barriers to learning. In this study, they gave
a useful framework for understanding different learning experiences and the feelings associated
with each. This is called the Growth Zone Model which has three zones: Comfort Zone, Growth
Zone, and Anxiety Zone. Comfort zone activities are activities where you feel confident about
your abilities and do not require help, while Growth zone is where new learning happens, you
may make mistakes and you will need resources and/or help from others and if you are
challenged beyond your current level of resilience you may find yourself in the anxiety zone.
They also gave for factors for developing mathematical resilience and also tip for exams
This study is relevant to our topic because it discussed what Math Anxiety is and gave
This study states of how Math Anxiety differs with other types of anxiety. It also talks
about the countermeasures on how to prevent this illness and the ways for it to be cured. The
ratio and percentage of people with this kind of disease is also tackled as well as to the effects if
someone is diagnosed with Math Anxiety. There are also measurements of how prone you are
and how great this anxiety has been to someone. Also having Math Anxiety can make everyday
tasks harder for mathematics is always handled with everyday uses. This implies that when
someone is having a difficult time to deal with numbers and the fundamental operations, one
should be aware that he or she may have Math Anxiety and should be cured if there is as soon as
possible. The stress of the test of math and doing homework in algebra should be noticed right
of Math Anxiety. It shows clear and sufficient information of this anxiety and its difference to
other illnesses.
Math Anxiety is a serious obstacle for many children across all grade levels. They
believed that implementation of strategies to prevent or reduce Math Anxiety will improve Math
achievement for many students. This study has also found that Math Anxiety is more common in
girls, especially at the middle and senior high school levels. Researchers agree that Math teachers
are one of the factors on why students have this anxiety, so they gave us Teacher Strategies for
Reducing Student’s Math Anxiety like relating math to real life and avoiding the student to get in
embarrassing situations. Also, they find out that parents have strong influence on the children’s
attitudes toward math so they provided strategies for the parents to help prevent their children’s
Math Anxiety like having realistic expectations and providing support and encouragement.
Lastly, researchers suggested several student strategies to overcome Math Anxiety that is asking
This is absolutely relevant to our topic because of the reason about it states the effective
ways to cure Math Anxiety. It tackles to whom this anxiety is often developed and how to stop
the further graveness of this illness. Lastly, this study proves that Math Anxiety can be put into a
IV. Results
Being convinced to research about Math Anxiety, we did the following steps in order to
do it successfully and efficiently. First, we research some information about the said illness to
have a background knowledge about it. After that, we formulated questions to make a survey.
This survey questions is thought thoroughly and made sure it is relative to the topic. With the set
of questions made, we arranged them in perfect order and chose the perfect people to interview
and asked them the formulated questions. Afterwards, we recorded what they said via cellphones
and we list what they said. Then, we tallied the answers of our interviewees and made sure that
their answers are appropriate and clear. Subsequently, we made sure the tallied answers are exact
in numbers by counting if it is all in all 12 because our total asserters are also 12. Finally, we
made conclusions for the research by gathering and summarizing their answers in a concise and
comprehensible manner.
Out of twelve respondents, all of them answered that they do have hard times in solving
math problems.
Out of twelve respondents, three of them get nervous at Math time and two of them are
afraid to get mistakes and be embarrassed. Another two stresses out for the day when they fail on
tests. A pair of respondents also stated that it affects their academic grade. Speeding up heartbeat
with dizziness is also a reason for a respondent and another one have a hard time in terms of
money. Lastly, one of them said that he is not affected by Math anxiety.
3. What are the factors that contribute to your Math anxiety?
a) in terms of peers?
Nine out of twelve students responded that having friends that are great at Math and them
not being that great contribute to their Math anxiety. The remaining three said that peers are not
Both the reason of not having the chance to answer a certain question of a teacher and the
reason, failing in tests is responded by four people summing up to eight respondents in total.
Another respondent got a line of seven while the other one got a strict teacher in the past. Also,
one of our interviewee didn’t explicitly told the experience and one said he didn’t have any
previous experience.
Seven respondents said that the teacher’s method in teaching doesn’t contribute to their
Math anxiety while the other five said it does. With these five respondents, four reasoned it to be
the unclear explanations of the teacher while the other one said because he was always scolded.
Ten stated that their parents don’t have high expectations for them while the other two do
have.
4. Have you overcome Math anxiety or are you still suffering from it? How long did/are
Of all of them, two stated that they suffered for eight years and another two for two years.
It pair of respondents didn’t explicitly stated the extent of year and the remaining each one of
5. How did you solve Math anxiety? How are you dealing with Math anxiety?
a) through peers?
Out of twelve respondents, ten of them said that they seek help to their friends making
peers a huge factor to help them get over Math anxiety while the other two assenter said their
b) through tutorials?
Seven testees responded that they watch tutorial when they doesn’t understand a math
topic. Five of the seven testees specified that they watch it on Youtube. The remaining five
All of our respondents do not have any personal tutor to help them cope with Math
anxiety.
Out of twelve respondents, only nine of them didn’t state a specified reason on how they
deal with Math anxiety while the remaining three did of these three answerer, one said that he
practice solving math problems at home as well as in school while on the other hand, another
interviewee told us that he seek help with his brother which is an engineer, the last respondent
said that his other way of how to deal with Math anxiety is through praying.
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