Math Anxiety

Anxiety in engineering education sometimes comes from doing math. What does math anxiety feel like? What are its causes and effects? How do you deal with it, as a student and as a teacher? Guest cohost Rachel joins again to talk about these questions and possible answers. Related to this episode: • “Math anxiety” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_anxiety • Article on anxiety from too many choices, from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your-money/27shortcuts.html • Article on overcoming test anxiety, from The Princeton Review: https://www.princetonreview.com/college-advice/test-anxiety • Rachel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rfahrig • Pius on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PiusWong • Podcast for Education Meetup: https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2018/events/PP71654 • Designing Lessons: Tips from Improv and Engineering: https://schedule.sxswedu.com/2018/events/PP74100 • Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html • Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1520634900 We will be at the SXSW Edu Conference and Festival in Austin during March, 2018! We will be running workshops for educators, podcasters, curriculum developers, and more: http://sxswedu.com/ Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.