Reducing Math Anxiety: Findings from Incorporating Service Learning into a Quantitative Reasoning Course at Seattle University

How might one teach mathematics to math-anxious students and at the same time reduce their math anxiety? This paper describes what we found when we incorporated a service learning component into a quantitative reasoning course at Seattle University in Fall 2010 (20 students) and Spring 2011 (28 stud...

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Main Author: Allison Henrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Numeracy Network 2011-07-01
Series:Numeracy
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1936-4660.4.2.9