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Math anxiety is often associated with poor students’ performance in mathematics. This study analyzed the impact of math anxiety and the factors that caused the anxiety in pre-calculus of Senior High School Students taking Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Strand at Sorsogon State College, Sorsogon City. The research design utilized was descriptive- correlational. Eighty-eight (88) respondents out of one hundred eighty (180) students or two (2) out of four (4) sections from the Laboratory High School were randomly selected to take a math anxiety test. Among them, sixty-seven (67) students were found to have math anxiety. Results revealed further that there is a significant relationship between math anxiety and performance of students in pre-calculus. The Nature of the Subject, Student’s Factor and Parents Factor were the primary causes of the anxiety of the students. Anxiety-less workbook in pre-calculus was constructed based on the findings. Keywords : Math anxiety, Performance, Impact, Pre-calculus, Senior high school

A patient with tuberous sclerosis and biopsy-proven lymphangiomyoma is presented. Lymphangiomyoma is a hamartomatous proliferation of predominantly smooth muscle that involves the lung and lymph nodes. It gives a syndrome of chylothorax, diffuse pulmonary reticular pattern, and frequent spontaneous pneumothorax. That the pulmonary involvement of tuberous sclerosis is practically identical, both grossly and microscopically, to that of lymphangiomyoma and that both syndromes occur in females between 20 to 50 years of age, suggests a common pathologic basis. The concept that lymphangiomyoma is a hamartoma makes this association an attractive one. The presence of chylothorax has been emphasized as a possible differential point between these two entities. However, 2 cases of tuberous sclerosis with chylothorax have now been reported. The presence or absence of chylothorax may depend on whether the thoracic duct is involved.