Jordana Hunter and Nick Parkinson
Adults use maths every day, whether it’s to compare grocery prices, pay bills or interpret statistics in the news.
Adults with weak maths skills are more likely to struggle with employment, have poor mental healthand suffer homelessness.
When students feel anxious about maths, it can impede their performance.
While a little stress is actually helpful — it means we care and helps us focus — too much stress jams up our working memory, which we need to solve maths problems.
Students with high anxiety might make careless errors, misinterpret questions or sit staring vacantly at a maths problem, too overwhelmed to start.
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