Abstract
Many youth face mental health obstacles to their learning and wellbeing. School, and especially math class, is an overlooked and underutilized arena for students to learn coping and problem-solving skills and apply them to both academic and broader life challenges. A brief online intervention, Mental Math, developed with cognitive-behavioral principles, had high engagement and significant positive effects on academic performance among high school math students. Implications for future implementation are discussed.
Keywords
coping, problem-solving, math anxiety, mental health, social and emotional learning, online learning, high school mathematics
How to Cite
Lower, A. & Whitehead, M., (2024) ““Mental Math”: Building Coping and Problem-solving Skills in Math Class”, Ohio Journal of School Mathematics 96(1), 10--23. doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/ojsm.4178
Rights
Alexander Lower, Dr. Monica Whitehead