Study: Math-anxious parents can hinder children’s math achievement
August 13, 2015
CBS News:
If math makes you anxious, you may now be able to blame your parents.
New research published in the Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of Psychology, found that children of math-anxious parents learned less math over the school year than those children of parents who were not math-anxious.
The study, led by two University of Chicago psychological scientists, also found that the children of math-anxious parents were more likely to be math-anxious themselves, but only when the math-anxious parents provided frequent help on the child’s math homework.
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