Maths Anxiety

Some students are afraid of mathematics, this is not because they do not want to learn it. This is because they are not able to understand it. Some of the students also suffer from Maths anxiety. Now a question arises that what is maths anxiety? Maths anxiety is anxiety about one's ability to do mathematics. It is a phenomena that is often considered when examing students problems in mathematics.

Now a days, many students are suffering from maths anxiety. In this, students suffer from lack of confidence. It causes unusual nervousness whenever a student is doing or thinking about math. It also causes feeling of being alone. This causes when after studying students has down performance and when he/ she is not able to understand it. This also makes the performance of student bad not only in maths but other subjects too. Usually this happens when parents say that maths is tough to do and this statements affects the mind of students. Pressure made by parents and teachers for scoring good marks in maths also affect them.

But every problem has one solution similarly there are many ways for helping a student in reducing their maths anxiety. Students have to do practice of maths regularly, atleast for one an hour. This increase confidence of students for doung maths. Students have to replace negative self talk with positive self talk because it decreases pressure made on mind by maths. They have to utilize all the available resources and test themselves on daily basis.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations or algorithms: it is about Understanding