Becky Avella’s Reviews > Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math > Status Update

This has more to do with math instruction/education (which I am also interested in) than fixing my math anxiety and holes in understanding - but I am learning useful things from it (and from the other things I’m trying). I’ve had quite a few ah-ha moments. I’ve discovered that part of my problem is that I never attached meaning to the math problems - just memorized steps - attempting that is really helping.

This has more to do with math instruction/education (which I am also interested in) than fixing my math anxiety and holes in understanding - but I am learning useful things from it (and from the other things I’m trying). I’ve had quite a few ah-ha moments. I’ve discovered that part of my problem is that I never attached meaning to the math problems - just memorized steps - attempting that is really helping.

This has more to do with math instruction/education (which I am also interested in) than fixing my math anxiety and holes in understanding - but I am learning useful things from it (and from the other things I’m trying). I’ve had quite a few ah-ha moments. I’ve discovered that part of my problem is that I never attached meaning to the math problems - just memorized steps - attempting that is really helping.

This caught my eye at the library, and I had to bring it home. It has always bothered me that I have such high math anxiety. When faced with numbers, it’s like the steel shutters of a panic room come down around my brain, and I cannot think. I want to love it like the rest of my family does. I’m skeptical that this book contains the cure, but I’m willing to give it a try: