August 20 Day 530: Affirmations in Focus

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I admit, I was grumpy and feeling down yesterday. But I bounced back after seeing the newest issue of MAA Focus released online. The President’s message that I wrote was about using affirmations to help students address mathematical anxiety, especially associated with assessments. Reading it again, helped relieve my own anxiety of the moment. Even the initial reflection:

While intended to help students, many of the affirmations are appropriate for this crazy, uncertain moment in time. So of course I want to share it with you.

http://digitaleditions.walsworthprintgroup.com/publication/?i=718135&ver=html5&p=26

Use the link above to read the article and you are welcome to use the Mathematical Affirmation Deck to ease your own or your students’ anxieties.

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Published by Jenny Quinn

Mathematician. Mother. Wife. Leader. I am the Executive Director of Seattle Universal Math Museum after many years working as a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Mother of Anson and Zachary. Wife to Mark. President of the Mathematical Association of America 2021-2022. Past-President of MAA 2023.

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