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When teachers lack confidence in math, their students fall behind, a new study shows

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Last call to sign up for our next Chalkbeat Ideas online event , which will feature new data on the number of teachers leaving the profession over the last several years. We’ll also have a rich conversation about what to make of this data. Hope to see you Thursday at noon ET. Plenty of students have math anxiety . It turns out some educators have their own anxiety about teaching the subject, a new study finds. And that appears to affect their students — especially those already struggling in the subject. The recently published paper draws on an unusually detailed survey of teachers in Indiana. They were asked how much they agreed with statements like “Teaching mathematics does not intimidate me at all” and “Of all the subjects, mathematics is the one I worry about teaching.” Based on those answers, the researchers created a “math teaching anxiety” score for over 3,000 educators who taught math in grades three through eight. Those grades are when state testing occurs, allowing the resea

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