Given how unpleasant life with an anxiety disorder can be, it's probably not a bad idea to try MBSR, or another form of meditation. (It's generally best to do it under the instruction of a ...

People with anxiety often develop sophisticated coping mechanisms that involve keeping busy and avoiding excessive focus on internal experiences. Meditation directly contradicts these protective ...

Still, the work suggests that when it comes to math, elementary school teachers need, at the very least, to put on a much braver face before they do a math problem on the chalk board. PNAS, 2010.

"When children or adults struggle with learning to read, the response is, 'You can do this, and we will teach you how.' But with math, it's more of 'Oh, you're just not good at math,' and that's ...

Getting kids to like math can be struggle. Even in elementary school, many students develop anxiety about math, and can get nervous when presented with a math problem. Studies have shown that to ...

Math anxiety is the feeling of tension and fear that many people experience when called on to work out a sum. Students with high math anxiety perform worse in standardised math tests and school ...

New research suggests anxiety can make students avoid engaging in math, even when they could gain big rewards from doing so. But a separate study also offers a simple way teachers can help math ...

Math anxiety isn’t just about feeling nervous before a math test. It’s been well-known for decades that students who are anxious about math tend to do worse on math tests and in math classes ...

If you’ve used math in scientific contexts, you know that this is analogous to saying that 10 gallons is the same as 10 liters. Inflation changes the value of the dollar, the unit of measurement.

Kids succeed in math if parents think they can Here is the bad news. We didn’t succeed in lowering parents’ math anxiety. Parents were just as anxious about math whether they did Bedtime Math ...

Study offers clues for coping to avoid choking. Oct. 20, 2011— -- A peek inside the brains of 32 college students has sparked hope for people overridden with math anxiety – the fear of ...

You know the answer to this problem. You know you know the answer to this problem. Yet, somehow, the answer doesn’t come. The issue may not be what you know, but rather how you feel. Anxiety can ...