As anticipated, the focus of my inquiry project has changed. I thought I was going to look at math anxiety at the student-level and how we, as educators, might help. However, when I went down the rabbit-hole, I learned that just looking at the nature and cause of math anxiety is a broad and complex topic in itself. For Inquiry 1, I'd like to therefore just focus on looking at the who, where, when, and why of math anxiety. Specifically, I'm looking at the following two questions:
- What causes math anxiety?
- What are the effects of math anxiety?
For Inquiry 2, I'd like to address:
- What can we do about it?
A very sensible way to keep your Inquiry project focused for both Inquiry 1 and 2! And your annotated bibliography is excellent, with concise and thoughtful annotations that bring together a brief summary and your own responses to these pieces. I'm glad you read the Dowker, Sarkar and Looi 60 year retrospective -- it is a key work in this area. The Jackson and Leffingwell article does sound highly alarming!
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