Nature of Math Anxiety: Mapping the Terrain
48 OVERCOMING MATH ANXIETY might say that some people have a "feel" for history, the notion that one is either historical or nonhistorical is patently absurd. Yet, becaus e even the experts still do not know how mathematics is learned, we tend to think of math ability as mystical an d to attribute the talent for it to genetic factors. This belief, though undemonstra-