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Building The Wall Brick By Brick: One Woman Prospective Teacher's Experiences With Mathematics Anxiety, Kathleen Jablon Stoehr
Building The Wall Brick By Brick: One Woman Prospective Teacher's Experiences With Mathematics Anxiety, Kathleen Jablon Stoehr
Teacher Education
Mathematics education researchers have investigated mathematics anxiety in prospective elementary teachers. While many of these studies have focused on the bodily sensations and emotions of mathematics anxiety, particularly those felt in assessment situations, opportunities remain to investigate how prospective elementary teachers interpret their experiences with mathematics anxiety and connect them over time to compose personal histories of mathematics anxiety. Currently, over 90 % of elementary teachers in US schools are women, and women have been shown to suffer more from mathematics anxiety than do men. In this article, I analyze how one woman prospective elementary teacher described, explained, and related …