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The starting point of the research was the fact that the math results in the region were low according to the international evaluation. The paper also aims to make new math anxiety questionnaire since the existing math anxiety inquiries focus mainly on feelings of learners and we wanted to study psychological, physiological and social elements of math anxiety using the viewpoints of Dacey and Fiore (2000). This questionnaire is compared to existing ones and the comparison shows that the questionnaire has new viewpoints. The results show that the anxiety level of the 1–6 graders was mostly low. The developed math anxiety tool needs further development.
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Nurhayati, Marhayani, D.A., Chang, CH., Naaranoja, M. (2019). Math Anxiety Analysis in Indonesian Elementary School. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Sanchez, G., Rodríguez-González, S. (eds) Learning Technology for Education Challenges. LTEC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20798-4_25
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