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Mathematics anxiety, working memory, and mathematics performance in secondary-school children [PDF]
, 2016 Mathematics anxiety (MA) has been defined as \u201ca feeling of tension and anxiety that interferes with the manipulation of numbers and the solving of math problems in a wide variety of ordinary life and academic situations\u201d.
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When math hurts: math anxiety predicts pain network activation in anticipation of doing math. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Math can be difficult, and for those with high levels of mathematics-anxiety (HMAs), math is associated with tension, apprehension, and fear. But what underlies the feelings of dread effected by math anxiety?
Ian M Lyons, Sian L Beilock
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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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Can I Count on Getting Better? Association between Math Anxiety and Poorer Understanding of Medical Risk Reductions [PDF]
, 2015 Lower numerical ability is associated with poorer understanding of health statistics, such as risk reductions of medical treatment. For many people, despite good numeracy skills, math provokes anxiety that impedes an ability to evaluate numerical ...
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Cognitive Therapy and Research, 2023 Math anxiety in adolescence negatively affects learning math and careers. The current study investigated whether three cognitive biases, i.e. math-failure associations, attentional biases (engagement and disengagement), and avoidance bias for math, were ...
Eva A Schmitz +3 more
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Education sciences, 2023 In the current study, we used a multi-method approach to understand the quality of math homework-helping interactions between parents and their children and how parents’ and children’s own math achievement and math anxiety relate to the quality of the ...
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ERP Measures of Math Anxiety: How Math Anxiety Affects Working Memory and Mental Calculation Tasks?
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015 There have been several attempts to account for the impact of Mathematical Anxiety (MA) on brain activity with variable results. The present study examines the effects of MA on ERP amplitude during performance of simple arithmetic calculations and ...
Manousos A. Klados +5 more
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Differentiating anxiety forms and their role in academic performance from primary to secondary school. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 INTRODUCTION:Individuals with high levels of mathematics anxiety are more likely to have other forms of anxiety, such as general anxiety and test anxiety, and tend to have some math performance decrement compared to those with low math anxiety.
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Endogenous and Exogenous Time Pressure: Interactions with Mathematics Anxiety in Explaining Arithmetic Performance [PDF]
, 2017 Eighty adults performed mental arithmetic under endogenous (time limit) or exogenous (presence of a clock) time pressure. Results demonstrated a significant interaction between math anxiety and endogenous pressure: error rates were significantly greater ...
Hunt, Thomas E., Sandhu, Kaljit K.
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Psychiatria Danubina, 2023 Math anxiety (MA) is considered one of the variables that cause poor performance in contexts where mathematical competence is required.The survey involved 28 Italian students in the first year of secondary school (corresponding to grade nine of English-speaking schools and of the Italian INVALSI evaluation system).
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