Start With Joy You open your child's homework folder to find another math sheet that's due the next day. You take one look and roll your eyes. Here we go again. You muster as much patience and courage as you can because you know what's coming. The yelling. The tears. It's become a nightly ritual that no one wants and no one can seem to escape. Math anxiety is real and can be developed once grade level expectations far exceed a child's ability to achieve success. If you've witnessed your child cry, yell, or shut down while doing math homework, you know math anxiety all too well. Anxiety and frustration remarkably limit something called working memory. Working memory is a type of short-term memory that is responsible for skills such as reasoning, judging, and decision making. The moment your child becomes overwhelmed, frustrated, or anxious their ability to access their working memory is restricted. Without working memory your child cannot work . It's c...
An exemplary math teacher becomes a mom and learns that she knows very little about teaching math.