3. DEFINITION
“The panic, helplessness, paralysis, and mental
disorganization that arises among some people
when they are required to solve a mathematical
problem”.
(Tobias & Weissbrod, 1980)
4. DEFINITION
“Feeling of tension and anxiety that interfere with
the manipulation of numbers and the solving of
mathematical problems in a wide variety of
ordinary life and academic situations”.
(Gierl&Bisanz, 1995)
5. DEFINITION
“Mathematics anxiety has to do with a sense of
discomfort while required to work on
mathematical problems”.
(Hadfield & Trujillo, 1999;Ma , 2003)