A Fear Of STEM Subjects Appears To Be A Common Phenomenon among Students. Perhaps One Of The Reasons For This Is The Emphasis Placed On Their Importance Within Education And Business, Thus The Pressure On Students To Do Well Is Heightened.
Fear of STEM subjects such as maths, chemistry, and physics occur when students place a high value in a task but have no control over it, which causes anxiety. This overwhelming anxiety is almost automatic and difficult to control and, therefore, the students’ way of responding to their fear is often to avoid it.
The myth that maths and science are only required by those students who are intending to follow a scientific career is also one which makes it easier for students to jettison subjects early in their student career and feel no guilt.
As such, it is rare to see students studying both the arts and sciences, or timetables that would allow for such diverse choices. The message is very much all or nothing, in that you are either scientifically minded or you are artistically minded. There is little room for students who want to dabble in STEM subjects rather than m
We all know the old stereotype where someone who is good at English is less capable of mathematics, and vice versa. However studies have shown that such ingrained stereotypes, such as gender abilities for either maths or English, simply do not hold true.
In conclusion, STEM can be taken by anyone whether he or she is scientifically minded or artistically minded for it can help both grow, learn and apply many disciplines in STEM either in their career in the future or in their daily lives. STEM can also help people enhances their problem-solving skills, be creative and innovative, encourages growth and risk taking, teamwork, collaboration, communication and foster the love to learn. Is STEM hard? so here’s my answer, almost all strand taken has its own difficulties, whether it is STEM, ABM, HUMMS, ICT or others, we just need to be determine, patient and passionate about what we pursue or take in senior high school, a reminder that “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty”.
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