Extensive research has been conducted into the topic of math anxiety in both psychological and physiological avenues. Researchers assert that "Math anxiety can bring about widespread, intergenerational discomfort with the subject, which could lead to anything from fewer students pursuing math and science careers to less public interest in financial markets" (Sparks 2011,-page 1)
It's very much as though individuals with math anxiety use up the brainpower they need for the problem" on stressing out. (Chan, 2013) The research showed mathematical anxiety to be lodged in the head but the question nonetheless is: may the neural activity spikes not be a consequence of the anxiety in the first case? And may this anxiety not be an expected response on the student's part form previous mathematical experience? In other words, May it not is possible to prevent this neural spike by preempting and removing the anxiety even before it occurs and by, thereby, enabling clear procedural thinking and mathematical literacy? This is what the following section discusses
Origin of Math Anxiety The interesting thing is that math anxiety could actually be neurologically related. Two years ago, researchers (Young et al