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A study in Math anxiety among students across various majors is presented.

Math anxiety is a phenomenon that has increased over the 20th century, especially in the US.While emotional and disease models have been used to explain the experience, social learningtheories have increasingly been used to explain causality. The cost of math anxiety is high forsocieties because career choices, including those that rely on higher education, can be influencedby its presence.

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Bill Yates posted a great story about the markers for Math Anxiety and how they relate to other conditions. Remarkably the Math Anxiety seems not related to  IQ, working memory, reading or mathematics achievement. Read up on the rest of this interesting research.

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A team (The lead author is UChicago PhD candidate Gerardo Ramirez. Joining he and Beilock in the work are UChicago postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Gunderson and Susan Levine, the Stella M. Rowley Professor in Psychology.) showed that a high degree of math anxiety undermined performance of otherwise successful students, placing them almost half a school year behind their less anxious peers, in terms of math achievement.

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