Do future teachers have math anxiety?

Abstract

To know the level of anxiety towards Mathematics of future teachers before receiving their first mathematics subject, it is applied from the academic year 2012-13 to 2018-19, the Fennema and Sherman (1976) questionnaire. Of the 895 participating students, chosen in an incidental sampling, one in two has high or very high anxiety towards Mathematics with a mean anxiety of 2.99, the maximum difference of Anxiety between courses is 37 hundredths, as well as women have more anxiety about mathematics than men. There are statistically significant differences in anxiety scores between promotions and between groups of the same course and there are not a majority of neutral responses in the items. This study, of seven different promotions of students, provides results that demand that anxiety towards mathematics be considered within the Primary Teacher Degree.