How to Overcome Math Anxiety

A Springfield Missouri first grade teacher has discovered how to overcome math anxiety, and she is sharing her discoveries and methods with her young students. When Katie Baker was growing up, she did not know that math would become her passion.  In fact, she had no...

Creating Meaning in Math

It really isn’t good enough to accept that some children are not good at math and some teachers have decided to create meaning in math for everyday activities.   The common parent excuse that  “I was never good at math” as a reason the...

Math Anxiety

Researchers have discovered that math anxiety may be a genetic predisposition. Although negative experiences in math could make most people anxious just looking at numbers, a study in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry found math anxiety may lie in our...