Inquiry Project

 For my inquiry project, I'd like to explore how to battle math phobia or math anxiety at the student-level, and also to explore how we, as educators, can help facilitate this. In particular, I want to look at how we can build resilience to math phobia in students through mindset and self-confidence. And finally, I'd like to link mindset and self-confidence back to the Core Competencies in the BC Curriculum. 

To be honest, I don't really know how this is going to play out, and it's really going to depend on what I find once I dig in to the lit review. There's a good chance the bolded statement above will change, but that's the rabbit hole I'd like to start down! 

And speaking of rabbit holes, he's an excerpt from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland that almost perfectly describes how I envision the start of my journey:

"...the rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on. Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiousity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."