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.

Nolting, Paul D, Ph.D.  Winning at Math You Guide to Learning Mathematics the Quick & Easy Way.  Pompano Beach, FL: Academic Success Press, 1988.

Ooten, Cheryl.  Mananging the Mean Math Blues.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2003.

Oxreider, C. A.  Your Number's Up.  Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1982.

Proga, Rosanne.  Math for the Anxious: Building Basic Skills.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

"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.

Smith, Richard Manning.  Mastering Mathematics: How to Be a Great Math Student.  2nd edition.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994.

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/