Mathophobia

Mathophobia can be defined in many different ways. Generally, we consider mathophobia to be "the fear of math". In other words, mathophobia is an anxiety, a frustration, or a confusion, that comes along with learning or using mathematics. Some people in today's world hear the word math and instantly they have an uneasy feeling upon themselves.
All throughout high school, I was one of those students who LOVED math. All of my friends would always ask why, because "it's so hard and so confusing". During high school, math was one of those classes where I said to myself.. "I'm actually going to use this information throughout my daily life down the road!" Unlike those other classes like history and english. My senior year in high school I was required to take a class called Financial Math. This class was unbelievably useful in so many ways. We learned life like lessons having math involved with them. I knew after taking that class that it would come in handy for me one day down the road.
I think a major part of realizing whether you enjoy math or not depends on what course you are taking and who is teaching you it. For example, I loved it in high school because of what I was learning. Also because I had an awesome teacher. She explained everything so thoroughly, and if you didn't understand it, she would go over a problem as many times until you did. She was always available for after school help too.
Then, my first year of college rolled around. I went to East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. I took the same math course as I am now. My teacher was not so great at explaining things. She also had that attitude where she just didn't care about her students. She was there to teach the material and that was it. This was when I began to dislike mathematics and start to have a little bit of mathophobia. Ever since that class, whenever I hear anything about math I cringe. However, after taking this course at DCC, I believe I can overcome my fear of math and work on my test taking anxiety. My problem is, I'll do the homework assignments and everything will make sense, then the morning of the test, I suddenly draw a blank. I need to come up with some type of strategies to overcome this and do better on my tests.
I believe in myself, and that is all it takes if you all want to overcome your fear of math as well! Good luck to myself and everyone else in their journey of elementary mathematics! :)