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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Maths ability"”.
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I Can’t Work It Out! Maths Anxiety and Discount Effectiveness
Mathematics Anxiety (MX) and Mathematics Ability (MA) are separate variables, that do not necessarily correlate (Suri, Monroe and Koc, 2013). Whereas MA is learned, MX is apparently innate; a person with a high mathematical ability can still suffer mathematical anxiety and vice versa. Suri et al …
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Investigating the modality specific cognitive abilities predictive of arithmetic competence, using a developmental trajectories approach
… acuity as possible predictors of mathematical ability however, findings are inconsistent. While the impact of modality of stimuli presentation has been investigated for working memory and intelligence, it is limited for executive functioning and numerical acuity, with much research focussed on …
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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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Factors affecting the development of mathematical concepts in children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus
… were also sub-divided into four groups based on ability in arithmetic as measured on the WISC. A large number of variables and their relationship to arithmetic were considered. The main variables were diagnosis, presence of shunt, ventricle-brain ratio, thickness of neonatal cortex, circumference …