Maths Anxiety

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Within my Keystage 2 class there was one pupil that struck me as different. Every time our mathematics lessons began, as soon as he realised that our English lesson was going to be transformed into mathematics, he began to sweat. He showed avoidance. I could see the worry and the sheer panic in his eyes. A panic that he would be asked to discuss mathematical ideas; he became a shell of the boy he was a lesson ago and I did not know what was causing this.