Overcoming Math Anxiety
ISBN-13:
9780393313079
ISBN-10:
0393313077
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Sheila Tobias
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
260 pages
Category:
Reference
,
Mathematics
,
Study & Teaching
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ISBN-13:
9780393313079
ISBN-10:
0393313077
Edition:
Revised
Author:
Sheila Tobias
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
260 pages
Category:
Reference
,
Mathematics
,
Study & Teaching
Summary
Overcoming Math Anxiety (ISBN-13: 9780393313079 and ISBN-10: 0393313077), written by authors
Sheila Tobias, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1995.
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Sheila Tobias said it first: mathematics avoidance is not a failure of intellect, but a failure of nerve. When this book was first published in 1978, Tobias's political and psychological analysis brought hope and made "math anxiety" a household expression.
The new edition retains the author's pungent analysis of what makes math "hard" for otherwise successful people and how women, more than men, become victims of a gendered view of math. It has been substantially updated to incorporate new research on what we know and don't know about "sex differences" in brain organization and function, and it has been enlarged to include problems, puzzles, and strategies tried out in hundreds of math anxiety workshops Tobias and her colleagues have sponsored.What remains unchanged is the author's politics. She sees "math anxiety" as a political issue. So long as people themselves to be disabled in mathematics and do not rise up and confront the social and pedagogical origins of their disabilities, they will be denied "math mental health." Tobias defines this as "the willingness to learn the math you need when you need it." In an ever more technical society, having that willingness can make the difference between high and low self-esteem, failure and success.
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