Math Anxiety

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Inter­est­ing com­men­tary on Entre­pre­neurs and Math Anx­i­ety

Based on a research report that included

  • “Math anx­i­ety feel­ings of dread and fear and avoid­ing math  can sap the brain’s lim­it­ed amount of work­ing capac­i­ty, a resource need­ed to com­pute dif­fi­cult math prob­lems, said Mark Ashcroft, a psy­chol­o­gist at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Neva­da Los Vegas who stud­ies the problem.”
  • “It turns out that math anx­i­ety occu­pies a per­son­’s work­ing mem­o­ry, said Ashcroft, who spoke on a pan­el at the annu­al meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence in San Francisco.”

You can learn more here about Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams for Stu­dents to help them man­age anx­i­ety and also train work­ing memory.

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  1. Tracy says

    I have math anx­i­ety. I am flunk­ing math095 and I need this class and one more for my asso­ciates degree. I am afraid because if I can­not pass I will not be able to be a drug and alco­hol coun­selor. I have a 3.53 GPA, I have noth­ing low­er than a B on my trascript and now math is going to ruin that! I see a tutor and I am still flunking.

  2. Alvaro says

    Tra­cy:

    Thanks for con­tact­ing us. I rec­om­mend that you talk to a coun­sel­lor in your col­lege: there you can prob­a­bly find tools to learn how to deal with anx­i­ety, which may be block­ing your will­ing­ness and desire to learn math.

    Please see this article:
    https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/21/counseling-center-offers-biofeedback-to-help-decrease-stress/

    You can find the Freeze-Framer pro­gram in our web­site. Still, most like­ly some­one in your uni­ver­si­ty does have it and can offer it to you. Please let me know if we can be of more help. Regards