Overcome math anxiety

Mathematics anxiety is fueled by false beliefs or even gender stereotypes, which push even those with adequate performance to feel less competent, consolidating vicious circles. The volume presents the innovative program «Overcoming math anxiety», a prevention tool to counter math anxiety in male and female pupils, starting from primary school, and to promote a climate of greater emotional well-being.

The program consists of three modules, which have the following objectives:

• enhance students’ recognition of emotions and their cognitive and physiological correlation;
• explore math anxiety, characteristic dysfunctional thoughts, cognitive biases, gender stereotypes and causal attribution systems;
• suggest some useful management strategies for the school context, and beyond.21×29,7cm

In addition to explaining the theoretical framework of the program, ideas and suggestions are provided for the teacher regarding behaviour during the lessons and the materials to be used in class.