Overcoming Math Anxiety and How to Be Successful in Mathematics

by Zero Angel Richardson

Many people are surprised that math anxiety is documented and accepted. When you think about it though, mathematics is the one subject that continues to build upon itself year after year. Each year, we learn new mathematics that uses the math of the year before. As soon as one gap gets into our education—as soon as we are missing one tool in our math toolbox—our experience with math begins to spiral out of control. It’s something that is hard to avoid.

About the Series:
Zero's Mathematics is a series of “math help” sections designed to take the reader from no knowledge of mathematics through calculus. Although best used in conjunction with each other, they are split up so the reader that knows where their gaps and misunderstandings lay may only acquire the information they are looking for and not be forced to purchase unnecessary information.

Zero's Mathematics is one teacher’s attempt to teach the mathematics that should be being taught to students of math today. Math classes everywhere are teaching students to do long multiplication without teaching why we add; teaching cross multiplication without asking why. “Why” is one of the most important questions in mathematics and by teaching mechanical processes without considering their place in mathematics as a field we set students up to be no better than machines.

Unfortunately, this means when confronted with advanced problems, students have no chance of success.

54 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 14, 2012

About the author

I've always lived in a fantasy world of one sort or another, starting with D&D and progressing through video games and books, and I've used that experience to create my own fantasy multiverse, "Zero Angel's War of the Ages".

I've been a teacher of mathematics and write math for curriculum and popular math. My own math books are international bestsellers.

Reviews

[Valérie Desmarais · Rating 5 out of 5]

By presenting mathematics as a language and as a journey, the author completely changed the way I used to see mathematics and gave me confidence in my capacity to understand it. I'm smarter than a calculator!! Yeah!
I used to think of maths as a set of rigid and complicated rules made for the sole purpose of annoying me. Now, I can see mathematics as they are: a wonderful expression of human creativity and curiosity. I can finally get why some of my closest friends find integrals so beautiful and mesmerizing.