This project was designed to develop and test an audiotaped program for the reduction of math anxiety. A tape was developed that uses systematic desensitization as a treatment technique. The taped program contains muscle relaxation exercises and a hierarchy of math‐related activities to be visualized while in the relaxed state. Three hundred thirty‐six ninth and tenth grade college‐bound math students were given two instruments to measure their level of math anxiety as a pretest. Fifty‐three measured high and were invited to participate in the treatment; they were given the same instruments as a posttest. Of the twenty who responded, ten completed the treatment and ten did not participate. Those who participated had significant reductions in math anxiety levels. Those who were not treated had math anxiety levels which remained virtually unchanged.
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