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Math Anxiety, Math Self-Concept and Math Self-Efficacy: a Study of the Jingle-Jangle Fallacies
… of clear distinction among the constructs of math anxiety, math self-concept, and math self-efficacy presents issues for research and practice. The literature reveals that math anxiety is closely linked to math self-concept (Klee et al., 2022). Additionally, math self-concept and math …
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From math activities to math homework: How interaction context shapes parents’ involvement and children’s math learning
Parents play a critical role in children’s math development, yet their involvement in math homework is often less constructive than in other home-based math learning activities such as math games. My dissertation investigates how attributes of math learning contexts—specifically, time flexibility, …
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Metacognition Moderates Math Anxiety and Affects Performance on a Math Task
Math anxiety is a general fear or tension associated with thinking about or engaging in tasks requiring mathematical computations or interpretations. Past research paid little attention to the role of metacognition. It was expected that metacognition would moderate the effects of math anxiety such …
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Growth in Math Skills and Response to Math Intervention in Kindergarten
<p>Proficiency in mathematics has been identified as a critical skill in multiple aspects of daily life. Research has found that deficits in math achievement may begin with a lack of basic understanding of numbers, or “number sense,” in early childhood. The Response to Intervention (RTI) model of …
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Math Performance as a Function of Math Anxiety and Arousal Performance Theory
<p>While research continues to link increased math anxiety with reduced working memory, the exact nature of the relationship remains elusive. In addition, research regarding the extent of the impact math anxiety has on working memory is contradictory. This research clarifies the directional nature …
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Math as Text, Rhetoric as Reason: Can the Humanities Save Math Education?
… a student I had always struggled hopelessly with math. I noticed many of my classmates and associates outside of school shared similar experiences with this subject. However, a unique convergence of fortuitous circumstances shed some much needed light on my difficulties with math. Using a creative …
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Strategies for Overcoming Math Anxiety in Developmental Math Students at Community Colleges
<p>Math anxiety is a significant problem among both traditional and adult students attending community colleges. The purpose of this study is to examine effective strategies for overcoming math anxiety in community colleges. The research question for this study was: What tools are community …
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Parental Differential Treatment With Math: Links to Adolescent Girls' Math Achievement Beliefs
… particularly for gender-stereotyped domains of math and English relates to adolescent girls' achievement beliefs in these subjects. Participants included 124 female adolescents (mean age = 12 years), their siblings (mean age difference = 2.35 years) and parents, with individual surveys completed …
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The Look of Math
If consideration is given to math’s look when it is written out, math can be experienced visually without working with or understanding its logical content. This “meaningless math” then becomes a vessel into which new contextual meaning is injected by a given observer. “The look of math” is a part …
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SELF-REGULATION AND MATH ATTITUDES: EFFECTS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN DEVELOPMENTAL MATH COURSES
… study was to investigate the relationship among math attitudes, self-regulated learning, and course outcomes in developmental math. Math attitudes involved perceived usefulness of math and math anxiety. Self-regulated learning represented the ability of students to control cognitive, …
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A new measure of math shame and a synthesized theory of math anxiety
<p>Research on math anxiety has historically explored cognitive and emotional factors independently. This study attempted to connect these areas of research through the lens of math shame. While discussing a more integrated approach to understanding mathematics anxiety, this research explored math …
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Those Who Can: The Significance of Math Policymakers for Math Policy and Practice
… have upon equity in the policy and practice of math education. It looks beyond math education culture to the general culture, examining the way mindset is constructed and sustained through its discursive expressions in written and spoken language and identifying the positioning it entails and …
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Improving math fact acquisition of students with learning disabilities using the "Touch Math" method
This study examined the effects of "Touch Math" compared with a number grid for computation. The study also considered the effects of these interventions on the self-efficacy of students with learning disabilities towards mathematics. Computation probes and math self-efficacy surveys were …
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The Association between the Use of <em>Accelerated Math</em> and Students' Math Achievement.
… learning system entitled <em>Accelerated Math</em> and traditional mathematics instruction on achievement as measured by standardized achievement tests of elementary school students. The variables of ability level, special education, grade, socioeconomic status, gender, classroom teacher, …
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Identification of math anxiety subtypes
Conceptualizations of mathematics anxiety, as well as factors that are empirically related to it, were identified from the existing literature. These factors are test, evaluation, trait, and state anxiety, as well as gender and level of math ability. Differences in these factors were hypothesized …
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The Effect of Gender and Implicit Theories of Math Ability on Math Interest and Achievement
… examined whether males and females differed in math achievement and held different beliefs regarding the malleability of math ability at the elementary level. The study also explored the relationships between students’ implicit theories of math ability, math interest, and math achievement. …
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Effects of Adaptive Learning Technologies on Math Achievement: A Quantitative Study of ALEKS Math Software
… investigate the effects of a particular adaptive math learning program (ALEKS) on math achievement and its impact on closing the achievement gap in math performance of middle school students. The study is conducted in two small urban school districts in a southern city. The study is a …
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Elementary Preservice Math Teachers’ Evolving Dispositions Throughout a Math Methods Course: A Mixed Methods Study
… Elementary Preservice Teachers’ (EPST) mathematical dispositions before, during, and after a graduate elementary math methods course taught through a rehumanizing (Gutiérrez, 2018), ambitious and equitable math (Horn & Garner, 2022) teaching framework. In this study, EPSTs’ dispositions …
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Student Proficiency On High School Math Assessments And Their Relation to College And University Math Readiness
… in high school to complete university-level mathematics courses. The purpose of this study is to evaluate student proficiency on high school mathematics assessments and their relation to student preparedness for university-level mathematics courses. The context of my study is a cohort of …
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