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Math anxiety and math performance in children: The mediating roles of working memory and math self‐concept

British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Background Numerous studies, most of them involving adolescents and adults, have evidenced a moderate negative relationship between math anxiety and math performance. There are, however, a limited number of studies that have addressed the mechanisms underlying this relation.
M José, Justicia-Galiano   +3 more
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Positive Mood and Math Performance

Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
Two studies are reported that assessed the impact of positive moods on students' feelings of self-efficacy and math performance. In the first study, 32 black and Hispanic girls and boys in the third to fifth grades, who had been identified by teachers as at risk for school failure, and a control sample of normally achieving classmates served as ...
T, Bryan, J, Bryan
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Reading, Math, and Motor Performance

Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1982
(1982). Reading, Math, and Motor Performance. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 21-28.
I. David Harris, Margaret A. Jones
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The Math Anxiety-Performance Link

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2017
Demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals is on the rise worldwide. To effectively meet this demand, many governments and private organizations have revamped STEM education and promoted training to enhance math and science skills among students and workers.
Alana E. Foley   +5 more
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Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance

Science, 2008
Gender differences in mathematics performance and ability remain a concern as scientists seek to address the underrepresentation of women at the highest levels of mathematics, the physical sciences, and engineering. Stereotypes that girls and women lack mathematical ability persist and are widely held by parents and teachers.
Janet S. Hyde   +4 more
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Math Anxiety and Math Performance: How Do They Relate?

2018
This chapter presents an interview of Erin Maloney, a researcher at the Human Performance Lab at the University of Chicago. She wanted to focus on figuring out how math anxiety works, and whether people who are weak in mathematics compared to their peers also have more math anxiety.
Lisa Ginet   +2 more
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Adult Math Anxiety: Relation to Math Performance and Adult/Child Math Interactions

2020
In a series of studies, I investigate the individual and inter-generational effects of math anxiety and performance pressure. Adults who suffer from math anxiety tend to underperform in math, and the children in their care tend to have lower math achievement levels.
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Performing Math Operations

2016
A large number of math functions are built in to the core of PHP and additional functionality is available through extensions including arbitrary precision numbers, statistics, and linear algebra.
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Math Performance in Stressful Situations

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2008
Whether because individuals are made aware of negative stereotypes about how they should perform or are in a high-stakes testing situation, a stressful environment can adversely affect the success people have in solving math problems. I review work examining how unwanted failure in math occurs and individual differences in those most likely to fail ...
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Stereotype Threat and Women's Math Performance

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1999
Abstract When women perform math, unlike men, they risk being judged by the negative stereotype that women have weaker math ability. We call this predicamentstereotype threatand hypothesize that the apprehension it causes may disrupt women's math performance.
Steven J. Spencer   +2 more
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