Math Anxiety: Personal, Educational, and Cognitive Consequences

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Current Directions in Psychological Science

• Publication date

  2002-10-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1111/1467-8721.00196
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