“Whenever I tell people what I do, they are animated with a look of joy or misery as they remember their feelings for math—and it’s usually the latter,” Vaughn writes at the beginning of her report.
“They frequently entertain me with tales of unpleasant classroom encounters or experiences, typically involving a teacher making.
Fun of or embarrassing them in front of the class.” Vaughn continued by saying that these instances of shame and mockery lead.
To a bad attitude toward arithmetic in many, if not all, of its manifestations This then has an impact on how well people—especially kids—perform in the classroom.
She went on: “In my opinion, math trauma occurs when a teacher or other authority figure decides to humiliate, mock, or make fun of pupils for their errors instead of applauding their bravery.
“For the rest of their academic careers, that arithmetic trauma is then activated everytime they come across a math issue or math discourse.
