The Relation Between Math Anxiety and Play Behaviors in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023 From a young age, children’s math achievement is influenced by individual factors, such as math anxiety. While math anxiety has been linked to math avoidance, few studies have explored this link in young children, particularly in the context of play ...
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npj Science of Learning, 2021 Math anxiety is widely considered a potential barrier to success in STEM. Current thinking holds that math anxiety is directly linked to avoidance of and underperformance in STEM domains.
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Teacher Math Anxiety Relates to Adolescent Students’ Math Achievement [PDF]
AERA Open, 2018 Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement. The current study addresses the role of teacher math anxiety on ninth-grade students’ math achievement and the mediating factors underlying this ...
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Math Anxiety Is Related to Math Difficulties and Composed of Emotion Regulation and Anxiety Predisposition: A Network Analysis Study [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2021 Current evidence suggests emotion regulation is an important factor in both math anxiety and math performance, but the interplay between these constructs is unexamined.
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Math anxiety affects career choices during development
International Journal of STEM Education, 2023 Background Links between math anxiety and the choice of a math-intensive career might change over development and differ by gender. The study included three research populations: primary school (N = 87, 48 females, mean age = 10.2), high school (N = 107,
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Math anxiety and math motivation in online learning during stress: The role of fearful and avoidance temperament and implications for STEM education. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Students’ math motivation can predict engagement, achievement, and career interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, it is not well understood how personality traits and math anxiety may be linked to different types or
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Working Memory and Its Mediating Role on the Relationship of Math Anxiety and Math Performance: A Meta-Analysis. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 It is well established that math anxiety has a negative relationship with math performance (MP). A few theories have provided explanations for this relationship.
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Parent-Child Math Anxiety and Math-Gender Stereotypes Predict Adolescents’ Math Education Outcomes
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Two studies examined social determinants of adolescents’ math anxiety including parents’ own math anxiety and children’s endorsement of math-gender stereotypes.
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Math anxiety in second and third graders and its relation to mathematics achievement
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Although the detrimental effects of math anxiety in adults are well understood, few studies have examined how it affects younger children who are beginning to learn math in a formal academic setting. Here, we examine the relationship between math anxiety
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The Link Between Math Anxiety and Math Achievement: The Role of Afterschool Learning
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023 The present study tested the learning avoidance model by examining the degree to which learning avoidance in various afterschool settings mediated the negative association between math anxiety and math achievement.
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