Since the Industrial Revolutions in Europe in the 20th century, the importance of Mathematics as a subject of knowledge has paved its way into our formal education system. However, it is disappointing that after a century as a core discipline of knowledge, Mathematics has become exam-oriented, perfunctory, mechanistic and has lost its original scent of beauty in the mainstream education.

Instead of a subject full of life and discovery, learning Mathematics has been commonly and widely associated with negative emotions such as monotonous, nightmare, fear, confusion, dullness, irritation, and boredom in majority of children’s lives, we sum it as math anxiety.

Mathematics symbols such as the numbers sign, equations and concepts were made to be seen as an alien language or a stranger’s subject and reduced to merely something irrelevant in our daily lives.