66 “I don’t do math Do you?”

Overcoming Math Anxiety What is math anxiety?. Individual achievement levels affect anxiety levels.... If you answered yes to any question, you may suffer from math anxiety... Overcoming

“I don’t do math!

Do you?”

 Have you ever made this statement?

By: Lee Alford

ED 503

Overcoming Math

Anxiety

What is math anxiety?

A stress, tension, and/or strain on the

body and mind, often due to a negative experience in math

3 Factors that affect math anxiety:

 Achievement

 Power

 Personal relationships

Individual achievement levels affect anxiety levels.

If you answered yes to any

question, you may suffer from math anxiety.

If you lose control, you lose power which affects anxiety levels.

Have your parents ever made negative comments about math?

Did your teacher ever say

“That’s just the way it is”?

 Did anyone ever tell

you to memorize the

steps?

Overcoming math anxiety begins with a positive attitude!

Resources for help overcoming

math anxiety:

Math for the Anxious: building basic skills by Rosanne

Proga, McGraw-Hill Higher Education Boston, 2005 ISBN 0-07-288584-X.

Conquering Math Anxiety, 2nd edition, by Cynthia

Arem, Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning Pacifica Grove,

CA, 2003 ISBN 0-534-38634-2.

Mastering Mathematics, How to Be a Great Math

Student, 3rd edition, by Richard Manning Smith

Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning Pacifica Grove, CA,

1998 ISBN 0-534-34947-1.

Word phrases

Eight more than three times a number How do you express this

mathematically?

3x + 8

In Algebra, a variable is a symbol used

to represent any element of a given

set of numbers

The numerical expression below is the answer 

Algebraic expressions

Of what operations do the following words math you think?

Evaluating Algebraic expressions

What does it mean to evaluate?

How is an evaluation different from

an expression?

Evaluate is to find a value; to

calculate numerically

Express is to represent by a sign, symbol, &/or words

vs.

Algebraic expressions help solve word problems.

Reading comprehension helps

translate words into numbers and

symbols

Practice makes Progress, click here for some practice!

Final Thoughts

Algebra and all math is a universal

language where:

Attitude is everythingAbility depends on

confidence

Confidence depends on attitude

I do math,

do you?