Teachers’ math anxiety might add up for girls

→Teacher math anxiety was measured on a 25-question test about situations that made them anxious, such as reading a cash register receipt or studying for a math test. A separate test checked the math skills of the teachers, who worked in a large Midwestern urban school district.

→Student math skills were tested in the first three months of the school year and again in the last two months of the year.

→The research was funded by the National Science Foundation.