According to the test results of the International Student Assessment Program (PISA) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among these countries, children's "math fear" is the most serious among OECD countries.
The chart below shows that teenagers in Tunisia are the most anxious in these tests, while students in the Netherlands are the least anxious, and students in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are the closest to the OECD average.
The OECD asked students from all over the world to answer a series of questions as part of the international student assessment test program, and then drew the above chart according to their answers. These questions are mainly used to evaluate the oppression that mathematics brings to students. For example, this:
But why test students' anxiety about mathematics? Because the degree of fear will affect students' math scores. People think that when a person is too worried about mathematics, he is more likely to be distracted and unable to enter the learning state to learn mathematics well, which leads to students becoming more and more afraid of mathematics.
It is worth noting that students who are too anxious about mathematics have poor grades, but the counter-proposition is not valid. In other words, students who are not anxious about math are not necessarily good at math. In fact, students from China, Singapore, South Korea and other countries with good mathematical ability are slightly anxious about mathematics.
The secret of success in mathematics seems to be: the anxiety of losing everything, perseverance and the belief of studying hard. PISA test also measures students' perseverance. The findings of the OECD are as follows:
Those students who insist on perfecting all aspects of the task and remain interested in the task from beginning to end will not give up easily in the face of difficulties, and often have unexpected excellent performance. Their math scores will be much better than those of students with low persistence.
(compile: small head; via theatlantic)