Empowering Teacher Leadership to Address Math Anxiety in Today’s Schools

Authors

Joseph M. Furner, Florida Atlantic UniversityFollow
Christine Higgins, Cardinal Newman High SchoolFollow

Abstract

Math anxiety is an uneasiness or worry when dealing with doing mathematics, ranging from slight nervousness, nausea, to complete panic. It prevents students from learning math and makes them more likely to give up. Math anxiety is common in many math classrooms today. Teachers can work together and take a real leadership role in addressing this problem to build math confidence. Solutions range from undergoing therapy to changing teaching styles to being more inclusive of students with math anxiety. This paper looks at ways teachers as leaders can work together to address math anxiety in their schools. School leaders can empower math teachers to work together to prevent and reduce math anxiety with a goal of improved math achievement school-wide while addressing math anxiety by teachers taking on active leadership roles in their schools and classrooms. This paper gives many recommendations to address math anxiety.

First Page

4

Last Page

23

Recommended Citation

Furner, Joseph M. and Higgins, Christine (2019) "Empowering Teacher Leadership to Address Math Anxiety in Today’s Schools," Transformations: Vol. 5: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/transformations/vol5/iss1/2