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Feb 25, 2007

Math Anxiety

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Inter­est­ing com­men­tary on Entre­pre­neurs and Math Anx­i­ety

Based on a research report that included

  • “Math anx­i­ety feel­ings of dread and fear and avoid­ing math  can sap the brain’s lim­ited amount of work­ing capac­ity, a resource needed to com­pute dif­fi­cult math prob­lems, said Mark Ashcroft, a psy­chol­o­gist at the Uni­ver­sity of Nevada Los Vegas who stud­ies the problem.”
  • “It turns out that math anx­i­ety occu­pies a person’s work­ing mem­ory, said Ashcroft, who spoke on a panel at the annual meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of Sci­ence in San Francisco.”

You can learn more here about Brain Fit­ness Pro­grams for Stu­dents to help them man­age anx­i­ety and also train work­ing memory.

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3 Responses

  1. Tracy says:
    March 26, 2007 at 8:50

    I have math anx­i­ety. I am flunk­ing math095 and I need this class and one more for my asso­ciates degree. I am afraid because if I can­not pass I will not be able to be a drug and alco­hol coun­selor. I have a 3.53 GPA, I have noth­ing lower than a B on my trascript and now math is going to ruin that! I see a tutor and I am still flunking.

  2. Alvaro says:
    March 27, 2007 at 9:30

    Tracy:

    Thanks for con­tact­ing us. I rec­om­mend that you talk to a coun­sel­lor in your col­lege: there you can prob­a­bly find tools to learn how to deal with anx­i­ety, which may be block­ing your will­ing­ness and desire to learn math.

    Please see this arti­cle:
    http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2007/01/21/counseling-center-offers-biofeedback-to-help-decrease-stress/

    You can find the Freeze-Framer pro­gram in our web­site. Still, most likely some­one in your uni­ver­sity does have it and can offer it to you. Please let me know if we can be of more help. Regards

  3. » Are there specific brain fitness programs for kids? My kids have problems with math.   « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains      says:
    April 20, 2007 at 7:26

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