Tackling Anxiety in Primary Mathematics Teachers by Karen Wicks

Tackling Anxiety in Primary Mathematics Teachers by Karen Wicks

Provides teacher educators with an understanding of the issues around mathematics anxiety and a framework of teaching strategies to support trainees and teachers in primary settings in developing confidence in learning and teaching mathematics.

Adults often have a love-hate relationship with mathematics like marmite- but those feelings come from previous success or failure with the subjectKaren tackles those with less than positive concerns about the subject head-on.

Karen Wicks has produced a thorough review of the issues around mathematics anxiety for adult learners’ intent on teaching. This carefully structured text will be helpful for anyone teaching mathematics to initial teacher training students....

-- Mary Briggs, Oxford Brookes University

This is an excellent, well-theorised and practical book that is written with precision and clarity by a highly experienced teacher-educator who is well-versed in supporting pre-service, and more experienced, teachers to overcome any feelings of anxiety they may have about mathematics.

She draws on her own research, as well as that of significant others in the field, to discuss reasons why many people experience anxiety in this area, and potential effects on pupils’ learning when teachers are anxious. The author sets out a range of practical strategies that can support teacher-educators to enable pre-service, and other, teachers to overcome mathematics-related anxiety and know how to teach their pupils from an assured, well-informed position so that they can inspire self-belief in their own pupils as confident learners of mathematics.

-- Janice Wearmouth, Professor of Education, University of Bedfordshire

Karen Wicks is a senior lecturer in mathematics education at the University of Bedfordshire. She has a range of experience in mathematics education, including working in both primary and middle school settings, as a head of mathematics and as a consultant within local authority provision. Her research interests lie in developing confidence in adults learning mathematics and the role of technology in learning and teaching.

Ian Menter is Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education and was formerly the Director of Professional Programmes in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.  He previously worked at the Universities of Glasgow, the West of Scotland, London Metropolitan, the West of England and Gloucestershire.  Before that he was a primary school teacher in Bristol, England.  His most recent publications include A Companion to Research in Teacher Education (edited with Michael Peters and Bronwen Cowie) and Learning to Teach in England and the United States (Tatto, Burn, Menter, Mutton and Thompson).  His work has also been published in many academic journals.

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ISBN 13	9781913453015
ISBN 10	1913453014
Title	Tackling Anxiety in Primary Mathematics Teachers
Author	Karen Wicks
Series	Critical Guides For Teacher Educators
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Critical Publishing Ltd
Year published	2021-02-15
Number of pages	72
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