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Are you one of those people that freeze up when you need to calculate a 15 percent tip on the restaurant tab? Do you hope a friend will volunteer to figure it out? You might have a bit of math anxiety. A lot of adults and kids think they’re bad at math and say they don’t like it. But learning to be comfortable with numbers and patterns is vital to holding many jobs, being a smart consumer and being a good citizen. We revisit a conversation MPR News host Angela Davis had in January 2022 with two math educators about how parents and teachers can kindle success in math.
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Are you one of those people that freeze up when you need to calculate a 15 percent tip on the restaurant tab? Do you hope a friend will volunteer to figure it out? You might have a bit of math anxiety. A lot of adults and kids think they’re bad at math and say they don’t like it. But learning to be comfortable with numbers and patterns is vital to holding many jobs, being a smart consumer and being a good citizen. We revisit a conversation MPR News host Angela Davis had in January 2022 with two math educators about how parents and teachers can kindle success in math.

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