A cure for ‘math anxiety’? How Hurricane High is helping math students build lifelong problem

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Math teachers at Utah's Hurricane High School are utilizing a nontraditional teaching approach to help their students succeed.

The "Building Thinking Classrooms" strategy promotes collaboration.

Hurricane High math students report feeling better prepared for tests, future studies.

Americans have a complicated relationship with math.

Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but more than a third report having negative feelings about the wide-ranging academic discipline encompassing numbers, shapes, patterns and logic.

But a growing number of students at Utah’s Hurricane High School are discovering that math doesn’t have to be scary. Algebra, trigonometry, calculus and other math subjects are even helping