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The causes and prevention of Math anxiety among SHS students

-  By Liza . Sewal

FOR ANYONE in elementary or high school, studying Math would always make them anxious, regardless of the topic served unto them. There is always this undeniably overwhelmi­ng feeling when confronted with Math topics. Learning Math is like learning from the old and the ancient times when there were no computers yet and everyone had to skim through and brave thick and tumultuous books from dilapidate­d libraries with strict librarians.

It is not conducive to learning now as it is back then when students had no alternativ­e option. To know that students have to go

a, SST-III Estefania Montemayor National High School, Dumarao, Capiz through that same experience today when the correct reference materials to check. A teachers like me can always push for newer there are already computers would make teacher’s way of teaching can already affect Mathematic­s and visually-friendly books them find it boring and seemingly irrelevant. students learning potentials, and an online not rhetorical or wordy Mathematic­s that This alone causes students, particular­ly or advanced reference could be a good students still have to understand or would senior high school students, anxious in alternativ­e. But if the latter too is hard to have a hard time understand­ing. Teachers learning Math. access, then do not expect senior high school like me should also research and suggest

For a long time, students have dealt students to pay attention or even have the reference materials that are visually-friendly, with same procedures. As a teacher who interest to learn. meaning, there are more visuals than there has a wider grasp of 70s to 90s scenarios, What then can prevent senior high are words. Thus, students can easily relate, there have been not many revolution­ary school students from learning? One, it is imagine and dissect from these reference changes in education than when students already passé to learn from thick books materials to understand what each of these started having computers, internet and from the library. If the school can upgrade Math-related highfaluti­n words mean. social media. What makes students more its library look that can be conducive for Second, senior high school student’s anxious about learning Math is not having student learning then it is good. If not, then anxiety can also be prevented if teachers continue to make Math subjects fun and challengin­g. High school students are at their most dynamic and active stage. If you keep them in a classroom with boring lessons, you cannot keep them in paying attentive to any for long time. Come up with fun and challengin­g games that can feed their brain and stimulate positive response from the.

Online projects or online presentati­ons are what are mostly feasible at this time and age. When not that financiall­y viable in school, at least have such method from time to time because it is sellable to students. (

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