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Many years ago I became interested in math anxiety. It seemed to me that many of the preservice and inservice teachers I was teaching were suffering from math anxiety. I tried to overcome their anxiety and fears, but I don’t think I experienced a great deal of success.

My recent Google search of the term "math anxiety"produced more than two million hits. Quoting from the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_anxiety):

Last week I attended a lecture on Computational Behavioral Sciences. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but the word Computational caught my attention. I know a little about Computational Thinking, especially as it has been applied in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines. I looked forward to learning about related ideas in the humanities.

The talk was held in the building at the University of Oregon that houses the Computer and Information Science Department. I got there a few minutes early and struck up a conversation with a person seated next to me. He indicated he was a faculty member in the CIS Department specializing in machine learning.

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This is a guest post by Ryan Rivera. He has long believed in technological innovation when it comes to health care–particularly mental health.

How Technology May Lower the Cost of Mental Health Treatment

Dyscalculia is a specific math earning disability involving innate difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic. It includes difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, learning math facts, and a number of other related symptoms.

A number of interesting facts about dyscalculia are summarized in a newspaper article by Sharon Noguchi.