Investigating Pre-service Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety Using the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (RMARS)
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Pre-service primary (elementary) teachers’ mathematics anxiety affects their engagement with and future teaching of mathematics. The study measured the range of mathematics anxiety in 219 pre-service teachers starting a teacher education course in an Australian university. They responded to the Revised Mathematics Anxiety Scale (RMARS) and a set of demographic questions. Age differences in anxiety were found to be significant, and relationships were found between the RMARS scores and students’ self-perceptions of their current mathematics anxiety levels.
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