Maths anxiety has become a growing issue in Australian classrooms, driving students’ numeracy results down, an education expert has said.  USyd Lecturer in Mathematics Education Dr Benjamin Zunica said maths anxiety is a fear of negative repercussions of not knowing ...

Forget snakes and spiders. In primary school, my biggest fear was long division. I still vividly remember the feeling. A gut-wrenching stress triggered by symbols that refused to make sense, numbers that seem to appear from nowhere, and concepts that ...

Psychologist MH Ashcraft describes maths anxiety as a “feeling of tension, apprehension, or fear” that hinders a person’s performance in the subject. It often occurs when a student struggles with learning the basic concepts of maths which can lead to ...

Maths anxiety is affecting the teaching and learning of the subject but there are ways to overcome it. By Dallas Bastian. “When would we ever use this in the real world?” It’s a question just about every mathematics teacher will ...