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Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma'

I teach people how to teach math, and I've been working in this field for 30 years. Across those decades, I've met many people who suffer from varying degrees of math trauma – a form of debilitating mental shutdown when it comes to doing mathematics.

When people share their stories with me, there are common themes. These include someone telling them they were "not good at math," panicking over timed math tests, or getting stuck on some math topic and struggling to move past it. The topics can be as broad as fractions or an entire class, such as Algebra or Geometry.

[...] One of the biggest challenges U.S. math educators face is helping the large number of elementary teachers who are dealing with math trauma. Imagine being tasked with teaching children mathematics when it is one of your greatest personal fears.

Original Submission

1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
2. "Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma'" - https://phys.org/news/2018-11-youre-bad-math-trauma.html
3. "math trauma" - https://creativemaths.net/blog/maths-trauma-can-be-healed/
4. "math" - https://phys.org/tags/math/
5. "large number of elementary teachers who are dealing with math trauma" - https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=tepas
6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=29883

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