Math and School Anxiety

Overcoming Math and School Anxiety

Many of us have memories of exams, presentations or performances at which we experienced the sweaty palms, the pounding heart, the shaking hands and worst of all – the trouble remembering what you had learned. So how do we now help our kids with their math anxiety and overcoming their school anxiety?

Here's a series of articles that deal with math, reading and school anxieties:

Easing Classroom Anxieties

Every new school year students have to get used to new teachers, new classrooms, new rules and, in some cases, new classmates. This could lead to classroom anxieties.

Five Steps to get over that Homework Road Block

Five practical tips on how to tackle homework, especially the road blocks that happen.

Study: Math Anxiety is about the Fear, not the Math

A brain-imaging study found that it’s the stress response that impedes students with math anxiety from performing well in math tasks. 

Homework: How Much is Too Much?

As parents we all wonder how many hours our kids should be spending on their homework.

Let your Kids Learn from Their Mistakes

As parents we often find it too hard to watch our kids struggle with a particular math problem or spelling certain words. We’ll often step in to correct them before they’ve worked it out for themselves. Hold up! Not so fast. It's time to let our kids learn from their mistakes.