Math Phobia

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The paper discusses the nature of the phobia as being an irrational fear of being unable to acquire good mathematics skills. The paper explores ways to get rid of this phenomenon using curriculum material designed for weak students, multimedia and integrating parent cooperation, planning learning models, interacting with pedagogic experts and using workshops.

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"Teachers, administrators as well as parents of children are becoming more aware of the deficiency in not meeting the challenge of change and adopting Math as part of the curricula [Reys et al 1999]. The focus of the standardized test is to achieve the purpose of dissemination of math knowledge to children and testing them based on the skills acquired. This model in the olden days was called the NCTM Standards in which all recommendations of implementation activities are provided while in the modern day the NSF Standards have replaced the NCTM and has been able to make significant improvement on the old."

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