Education 2.0 & 3.0

Math anxiety and math trauma are real. So much so, that depression and mental health issues can be directly linked to the pressures of learning mathematics. Sadly, there have been suicides by students linked to the fear of failure with this subject.
Identifying math anxiety, which probably ramps up in middle school, has been a topic of fixation by many educators for as long as I can remember.

Via John Evans

A new study shows that creating an environment in which math is part of everyday life, can help kids do better in the subject.

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“Why do smart people enjoy saying that they are bad at math?” laments Petra Bonfert-Taylor, a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College. “Few people would consider proudly announcing that they are bad at writing or reading.” After seeing one too many examples of adults “passing on [mathematical anxiety] like a virus,” Bonfert-Taylor has an important message for math-phobic parents and educators: “We are passing on from generation to generation the phobia for mathematics... [and] as a result, too many of us have lost the ability to examine a real-world problem, translate it into numbers, solve the problem and interpret the solution.”

Via John Evans