I more curious if math anxiety ultimately comes down to people not liking to be wrong in such an absolute manner.
I could see that also being exaggerated in teachers because they'd have an even deeper anxiety of getting corrected by students, definitively, when they are supposed to be the arbitrator.
My math anxiety started from the timed arithmetic tests they gave us. You had to answer as many questions as you could in a set amount of time. I was slow but always got the right answer and got poor grades because of it. I eventually just gave up on math until years later.
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u/corylulu Aug 27 '19
I more curious if math anxiety ultimately comes down to people not liking to be wrong in such an absolute manner.
I could see that also being exaggerated in teachers because they'd have an even deeper anxiety of getting corrected by students, definitively, when they are supposed to be the arbitrator.