Parents' math anxiety can undermine children's math achievement

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/afps-pma081015.php

Public Release: 10-Aug-2015
Parents' math anxiety can undermine children's math achievement
Association for Psychological Science

If the thought of a math test makes you break out in a cold sweat, Mom or Dad may be partly to blame, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

A team of researchers led by University of Chicago psychological scientists Sian Beilock and Susan Levine found that children of math-anxious parents learned less math over the school year and were more likely to be math-anxious themselves--but only when these parents provided frequent help on the child's math homework.

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