Arem, Cynthia. Conquering Math
Anxiety: A Self-Help Workbook. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole
Publishing, 1993.
This workbook offers a variety of exercises, worksheets, and visualizations
that will help you prepare for success in math. Detailed explanations
of methods and examples from actual case histories help make concepts understandable.
You will learn practical, self-help strategies to: gain mastery over math
fears and anxieties, change self-defeating attitudes about math, reduce
internal psychological stumbling blocks, improve math-study and test-taking
skills, conquer math test anxiety, and open the door to exciting career
options.
Burns, Marilyn. The I Hate
Mathematics! Book. Little, Brown & Company, 1975.
This book eases children into mathematics through games, puzzles, explorations
- and what many children love best - riddles.
Burns, Marilyn. MATH: Facing
an American Phobia. Math Solutions Publications, 1998.
This book looks at why math has the dreadful reputation it does.
It laughs at itself while it sneaks its message through about what math
can and should mean to everyone. It also talks about how children
can be prevented from adopting the negative attitudes of those around them.
Buxton, Laurie. Math Panic.
London: Heinemann, 1991.
This volume's focus on emotions associated with the study of mathematics
provides a valuable complement to the current reform agenda in mathematics
education. Indeed, the interviews and ideas in this volume open an
important new frontier for research in mathematics learning. The
author addresses the mathematics teacher and researcher as well as the
individual who suffers from math anxiety and seeks to understand and allay
the problem.
Crawford, Carol Gloria. Math Without Fear. New York: Franklin Watts, 1980.
Hackworth, Robert D. Math Anxiety Reduction. Clearwater, FL: H. and H. Publishing, 1985.
Hilton, Peter and Jean Petersen. Fear No More: An Adult Approach to Mathematics. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley, 1986.
Immergut, Britte and Jean Smith. Arithmetic and Algebra for Math Anxious Adults. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Kenschaft, Patricia Clark. MATH
POWER: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even if You Don't. Reading,
MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
With this guide any child can overcome mediocre math teaching in school
and parental math anxiety at home. The author shares with parents
her strategies for understanding and teaching math concepts, explaining
what math is and how it works. Her lively techniques for understanding
math - through games, questions, and conversations, as well as specific
math activities - can help preschoolers to ten years old develop math ability.
Kogelman, Stanley and Barbara R. Heller. The Only Math Book You'll Ever Need. New York: Facts on File, 1986.
Oxreider, C. A. Your Number's Up. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1982.
"Project Mathematics!" computer animated
mathematics videotapes
Available from Caltech Bookstore, Mail Code 1-51, Pasadena, CA 91125.
The project director is Tom Apostol.
Ruedy, Elizabeth and Sue Nirenberg. Where Do I Put the Decimal Point? New York: Henry Holt, 1985.
Stenmark, Jean Kerr, Virginia Thompson,
and Ruth Cossey. Family Math (also in Spanish, as Mathematica
para la Familia). Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Hall of Science, 1986.
This book is about parents and children working together, learning to like
mathematics, doing activities that make math fun for children from 5 to
12 years old.
Tobias, Sheila. Overcoming
Math Anxiety (Revised and Expanded). New York: W.W. Norton &
Company, 1993.
The
new edition retains the author's pungent analysis of what makes math "hard"
for otherwise successful people and how women, more than men, become victims
of a gendered view of math. It has been substantially updated to
incorporate new research on what we know and don't know about "sex differences"
in brain organization and function, and it has been enlarged to include
problems, puzzles, and strategies tried out in hundreds of math-anxiety
workshops Tobias and her colleagues have sponsored.
Tobias, Sheila. Succeed with
Math: Every Student's Guide to Conquering Math Anxiety. New York:
The College Board, 1987.
A practical guide that enables the reader to conquer math anxiety.
It provides the tools to master mathematics in high school and college
courses and in the world of work.
Zaslavsky, Claudia. Fear of
Math: How to Get over It and Get on with Your Life. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
This book examines mathematics anxiety, suggests ways to reduce or overcome
it, and lists various related resources.
*** MATH WEB SITES
Professors Freedman's Math Help
http://www.mathpower.com/
*** LEARNING WEB SITES
Soloman/Felder's Learning Styles Site
http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSpage.html
All Kinds of Minds
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/