Little girls may learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest teachers. Despite gains in recent years, women still trail men in some areas of math achievement, and the question of why has ...

Your mouth is dry. Your armpits are wet. Your brain is neither dry nor wet, but seems to be leaking out your ears. You feel your vision closing to a pinprick around a jumble of symbols that might as ...

In children with math anxiety, seeing numbers on a page stimulates the same part of the brain that would respond if they spotted a slithering snake or a creeping spider—math is that scary. Brain scans ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One little command can cause hands to tremble, mouths to wick dry, sweat to bead on the forehead: "Find X." You know what I'm talking about. It's the dreaded math test. Uh, no ...

Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In a study of first- and ...

(CBS News) Does the prospect of solving math problems make you nervous? A new study suggests that mathematics anxiety - the feeling of discomfort that arises when performing math tasks - may affect ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Worrying about how you'll perform on a math test may actually contribute to a lower test score, U.S. researchers said on Saturday. Math anxiety -- feelings of dread and fear ...

For many of us, anxiety about math performance isn’t so much a question of whether it will happen, but at what level of math it kicks in (in my case, Calculus III, sophomore year in college). But, as ...

Stellar athletes, successful entrepreneurs, and motivational speakers like to say that pressure makes diamonds. The higher the stakes and the harder the circumstances, the thinking goes, the more ...

Do you panic when you have to calculate a tip? Did you ever feel like your mind went blank when confronted with a test in math class, in spite of having spent a week on the material? Do you avoid math ...