Helping High Ability Students Overcome Math Anxiety through Bibliotherapy

Affective factors play a critical role in mathematics learning and instruction. Evidence of negative attitudes and high levels of anxiety toward mathematics is abundant. Since math anxiety is widespread and the need for the understanding of mathematics is critical to success in school, secondary teachers need practical classroom strategies to use to relieve these anxious feelings in their high ability students. Bibliotherapy is one such strategy through which secondary students may gain helpful insights to deal with their math anxiety. The article provides a lesson plan featuring Math Curse and then suggests available literature dealing with math anxiety.