Math Anxiety

The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

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.