內(nèi)容簡介:The new edition retains theauthor's pungent analysis of what makes math"hard" for otherwise successful people and how women, more than men, become victims of a gendered view of math. It has been substantiallyupdated to incorporate new research on what weknow and don't know about "sexdifferences" in brain organization andfunction, and it has been enlarged to includeproblems, puzzles, and strategies tried out inhundreds of math anxiety workshops Tobias andher colleagues have sponsored.What remainsunchanged is the author's politics. She sees"math anxiety" as a political issue.So long as people themselves to be disabled inmathematics and do not rise up and confront thesocial and pedagogical origins of theirdisabilities, they will be denied "mathmental health." Tobias defines this as"the willingness to learn the math you need when you need it." In an ever more technical society, having that willingness can make thedifference between high and low self-esteem, failure and success.