Math Phobia: Strategies to Overcome Apathy and Improve Performance is the product of three distinct generations, baby boomer, millennial and z-generation, working together to provide readers with twelve possible reasons for students' apathy and low performance on standardized tests and twelve strategies that could help schools improve students' attitudes and increase their math proficiency. It is Dr. Ferrer's opinion that math should be a pump and not a filter in the pipeline of student academic success.