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The best antidote for maths anxiety is great teaching
Posted November 25, 2025
Posted Sep 1, 2025
Article Source: https://www.abc.net.au/education/the-best-antidote-for-maths-anxiety-is-great-teaching/105702920
The latest NAPLAN test results showed that one in three Australian students fell short of the proficiency benchmark in maths.
In the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment survey, 40 per cent of 15-year-olds agreed with the statement “I get very tense when I have to do maths homework”, and 35 per cent said they “get very nervous doing mathematics problems”.
Cue articles on maths anxiety, government guidance on addressing it and a crop of professional learning programs that target it.
Clearly, maths anxiety is in the Zeitgeist. But what exactly is it, and how should we fix it?
