Summary
The media example that will be evaluated in this paper is a TED-Ed animated video on YouTube. The video explores the question, ‘Why do people get so anxious about Math?’ by describing the concepts of working memory, metacognition and providing solutions. It has been found that people suffering from math anxiety do not experience decrements in performance simply due to mathematical incompetence (Ashcraft and Kirk 225). The video tries to convince students that it’s not poor math skills resulting in anxiety but actually vice-versa.