Math anxiety is one of the few student fears that travels across classrooms, cities, and abilities. It appears in ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off the page.

Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify how University of Colorado researchers handle their data collection. A student digs into a math problem that references his favorite superhero, ...

Whether it's an average student sitting in a classroom or a confident student from a top school, the fear of Math is not ...