Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss a chapter proposal Michael Tallman and I wrote for Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online. In this chapter, we define mathematics anxiety as an emotional reaction to
the prospect of failing to achieve a desired identity state while engaged in the act of learning or doing mathematics. Mathematics anxiety, like all emotions, emerges from a variety of subjective appraisals and cognitive constructions. We synthesize contributions in the areas of emotion, identity, goal theory, and mathematical epistemology to propose a theory of the cognitive antecedents of mathematics anxiety, and recommend concrete design principles for online learning environments that seek to minimize students’ anxiety by purposefully affecting the cognitive appraisals and constructions that contribute to its emergence.
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