0Math Phobia or math anxiety is a very real problem that many young students and even adult professionals face.
What actually is Math Phobia? It is the doubt on one's mathematical abilities.
How does it begin? Many underlying reasons are there to fear and hate maths. It could be because of a substandard teacher at a young age. It could be because of parents' math anxiety which they subconsciously transferred in their child. The pressure of exams and tests, maths being taught as a right or wrong subject instead of a creative field of study are more reasons why Maths is the most feared subject in the world.
How to get better and love maths? Teachers and parents need to motivate and help students stay positive and enthusiastic about learning Math. One way is to give them open-ended problems to solve and discuss. If you realise the uses and applications of different fields of Maths in everyday lifestyle like percentages, estimations and fractions when shopping, measuring and fractions in cooking, decimals in financial transactions, trigonometry in flying plane and construction and so much more.
DO maths to LEARN maths. Solve as many mathematical problems, experiment on understanding, think before asking.
Keep going, keep learning.
