PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Mathematics affirmations
Page: 1536
This poster reports on an action research project set in a developmental mathematics classroomin a community college. Students at the beginning of the semester expressed mathematics anxietyand did not believe they could succeed in the course. To help support students’ learning, theinstructor and students co-created a list of ten statements that became the prevailing philosophyin the class. These statements helped students alter their view of their own mathematics learning.Key words: