How to Reduce Math Test Anxiety

How to Reduce Math Test Anxiety 

If there is this math anxiety, I'm sure that there are methods on how to reduce it. At my early age, I find mathematics a hard subject because when I was a kid I really don't want to memorize and deal with numbers. It is just like brain-breaking thing that makes students embarrassed and anxious everyday they meet it. 

It is just like having an experiments on something, mixing chemicals and baking cakes that follows certain formulas and right measure of the amounts needed to finished it. Mathematics also follows on many formulas that may cause anxiety to each and everyone of us. The question is that what would we follow in order to reduce math test anxiety if in an instance we struggles about exams and don't review on it before it happens? Is it true that we only know how to take and gather the anxiety of math exams or we had also the power to reduce it? What makes math tests become a way where we become anxious and embarrass? 

I would say that lack of review makes the math test anxious to students because they don't want to focus more on numbers because it is too boring and brain-breaking. In my opinion we can also reduce this anxiety if we wanted to.

In order to gather information, I research on this matter that is true and is happening today to mast of the students.

According to the author Ryan Rivera, "there a fact specially when taking math test, because of the added pressure of knowing that the test itself is gauging ti know if there are learning that happens to every students."

Based on this article that I found in mathgoodies, the pressure can cause a lot of anxiety and it is common to for the child and students to feel these effects, including:

  Cloudy Mind – Anxiety has a tendency to reduce focus and clarity. This can be troublesome when the child is trying to figure out complex math problems, and that can lead to more anxiety. 

Physical Stress – Math anxiety during a test can also cause physical discomfort. Children that are attempting to sit and focus on solving a problem often find this discomfort to be overwhelming, and may prevent them from putting all of their efforts on the test. 

Time Perception – Scientists are mixed on whether or not anxiety alters the perception of time. But subjectively, many people report that time can feel like it's passing too slowly or too quickly, and both can affect the student's ability to complete the test. 

Self-Doubt – You need confidence to solve math problems. Doubt yourself, and it becomes much harder to find the right answer, because you'll worry that another answer is out there. Anxiety is often a fuel for self doubt.

Math test anxiety also causes students to have sweating, nervous behavior, and ticks. These makes it harder and harder to succeed in math test.

In my opinion, these factors really happens I must say because honestly I have experienced these when I was in grade school even in high school. I would say that these things can be conquer but not so easily because we will have to put most of our effort to understand and not to hate the subjects that makes our lives very hard. 

The best way to reduce math test anxiety is studying well because the more we practice to solve some problems, the more it become so easy and intimidating as time passed. It also help us to develop the skills that we need and we might used it when there are math tests that would come.

Teachers and parents can also help and implement the students to reduce math test anxiety even more based on the article and it includes;

• Create a Personal Test Taking Strategy 
• Teach a Personal Relaxation Technique
• Make Extra Credit Available

These are very effective because students know what they must do in order to reduce math test anxiety. They will also give extra effort on this matter and they could learn more about it. The students will also know what they lack about solving some problems and answering the test. The parents and teachers will also know if they have taught enough or their students needs more learning about math test and questions.

Teaching students to succeed on math test would require a lot of time and effort. There's only one thing teachers, students, and parents do not admit that there lots of test taking anxiety because students haven't been prepare thoroughly as possible as they can.

As conclusion to these, it is impossible to students to conquer this kind of anxiety because whenever there are questions which they don't really understand they feel anxiousness to answer it. Students should be already prepare in order that they can easily answer the questions and they would reduce stress and the anxiety that it brought to us. People will never ever take away this anxiety and that is for sure.


Follow up questions:
1. Why do students get hard time or have difficulties on mathematics?
2. What is the relevance of mathematics to the workplace?
3. How is it introduced to the public and influenced their lives?



References:
 Based on internet articles, research, and opinions are the references that I use or may use in this blog including this site http://www.mathgoodies.com/articles/how-to-reduce-math-test-anxiety.html.