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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Maths"”.
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The effects of maths anxiety, socioeconomic status, and mindset type on children's maths attainment
This thesis examines the effects of maths anxiety, socioeconomic status, and mindset type on children's maths attainment during the first three years of formal education in Scottish primary schools. It also considers the influence of the COVID-19 related educational disruptions on children’s maths …
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I Can’t Work It Out! Maths Anxiety and Discount Effectiveness
… if this concept (regarding the relationship of maths anxiety and ability) holds true cross-culturally; to explore the relationship between maths anxiety, maths ability and purchase intentions when exposed to a discounted product. There is good reason to suppose that Chinese consumers process …
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Maths and Mobile Technologies: Effects on Students’ Attitudes, Engagement and Achievement
… The study starts with a systematic review of maths and mobile learning studies followed by three iterations of data collection. The three studies were mixed-methods studies guided by the micro, meso, macro (M3) Evaluation Framework. The studies included eight mobile learning sessions spread …
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Improving my teaching of maths to develop student attitudes towards the subject.
… and concepts that are developed in our primary maths education have a significant impact on our daily lives through our engagements with each other and our environment. Therefore, it is important to promote maths education and learning in a positive and engaging way. The purpose of this Action …
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From working memory to maths: A multi-measure physiological investigation of the impact of anxiety
… working memory (WM). The importance of WM for maths processing and the sensitivity of physiological measures to both anxious responses and executive processes make these measures appealing for advancing our understanding of maths anxiety (MA). The overarching research question asked whether …
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The influence of previous understanding and relative confidence on adult maths learning : building adult understanding on a brownfield site
Expansion of Higher Education has resulted in increasing provision of Access and Foundation programmes, often aimed at mature learners. Adults returning to learn mathematics bring with them a wealth of prior understanding and expectations The two common teaching approaches, remedial 'fill in the …
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"What if I get it wrong?" A psycho-social enquiry into SENCOs' experiences of learning, doing and teaching maths
This research applies a psycho-social approach to explore how SENCOs think about children with learning difficulties in mathematics, their feelings when performing mathematics tasks, and their own experiences of mathematics learning. Four SENCOs from different schools were interviewed twice. These …
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Cognitive and emotional mathematics learning problems in primary and secondary school students
… to mathematics tasks. The link between these maths learning issues was examined by measuring their prevalence in large samples of English primary (N = 1004; N= 830) and secondary school (N = 927) students. Gender differences were also explored. Systematically varying diagnostic criteria for …
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Exploring the biographies of high-achieving students: how to social environments and classroom experiences enable them to identify as 'good at maths'?
… if they are able to identify as ‘good at maths’. This study investigated the manner in which students’ social and classroom experiences regulated how easily they could adopt this learner identity. According to previous research, historical and popular discourses portray mathematics as …
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Investigating the effect of self-cues on children and adults’ visuospatial and verbal working memory, and its applications in maths word problem solving
… the practical applications of self-cues in maths word problem solving were explored. Experiments 1 (children) and 2 (adults) investigated the effect of self-cues on visuospatial WM by displaying owned objects, as the self-cue, in a Corsi-block test. There was no difference in performance …
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Predictors of cognitive and socioemotional development in early and middle childhood: Evidence from Chile and Hungary
… (N = 8,381) studied the relationship between maths achievement, receptive vocabulary, Grade Point Average (GPA), self-esteem, and bullying in 8- to 12-year-old children. Unlike the international literature, we found a larger relationship between self-esteem and GPA, and a smaller relationship …
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Formation of children's human capital in Kenya: The role of teachers, private schools and the family
… classroom practices on grade 4 language and maths test scores. Our results show that a one standard deviation increase in the teacher's knowledge in language (maths) increases student test scores by 0.075 (0.126) of a standard deviation in language (maths). An additional hour of teacher …
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Towards the convergence of music, mathematics and computing in the primary school through the use of a visual programming system designed for in-the-wild delivery
… Information Communication Technology (ICT) and maths, the NC for music has remained relatively unchanged. A decline in the number of students studying music in UK schools has also been noted throughout the last decade. Considering the NC statutory requirements for music, maths and computing at …
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Participation in physics and rigorous mathematics and a consideration of educational, economic and political influences
… are considered, in particular the condition of Maths and Physics in lower Secondary schools in Queensland. Some of the effects of weak Maths and Physics in that part of the education chain are examined indicating that there is a commonality of interest between many school students, especially …
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A mixed methods investigation into the impact of computers and maths software on mathematics teaching and matric results of high schools in the EMDC East, Cape Town
This mixed methods dissertation investigates whether the Matric Mathematics results and enrolments at high schools in the EMDC East zone of Cape Town have been impacted by the availability of computers and mathematical software (as provided by the Khanya Project); how the teachers at one school in …
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Viewing the use of open educational resources through a community of practice lens: a case study of teachers' use of the Everything Maths and Everything Science open textbooks
… th e quest ions of why and how the "Everything Maths" and "Everything Science" open textbooks are used, and to what extent a Community of Practice (Wenger, 2006) has formed around the use of these open textbooks, are informed by a case study, comprising of interviews with nine South African …
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Investigating the modality specific cognitive abilities predictive of arithmetic competence, using a developmental trajectories approach
… girls with Turner syndrome, and children with maths learning disabilities (N = 214; M = 11.5 years, SD = 3.9) Phase one, a quasi-experimental study, investigates pathways between intelligence, executive functions, number cognition, and arithmetic competence in both auditory and visual …
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The relationships between gender, students' achievement and dropping out in rural Vietnam
… and trading. The scores in two subjects - maths and Vietnamese language - of the randomly-selected sample of students from each school were analysed with the aid of SPSS. Frequency tables, box plots, charts and graphs were used to describe and illustrate the relationships between gender, …
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The role of mental representations of order in mathematical cognition: a developmental approach
… order-processing skills were predictive of maths achievement during thefoundation years (between the ages of 4-6) and during Key Stage 2 (between theages of 8-11). Since the school starting age of children in Northern Ireland isthe youngest in Europe, the current thesis provides an insight …
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Mathematics, pedagogy and textbooks : a study of textbook use in Grade 7 mathematics classrooms
… of the practices of a textbook, Maths for all Grade 7 Learner's Activity Book, when it is incorporated into grade 7 mathematics teachers' classroom practices. In particular, the research described here focuses on the impact of the textbook on four grade 7 mathematics teachers' …
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