Students’ Attitudes Toward Math Learning

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Math Learning ◽  
Attitudes Toward Math

scholarly journals First-year students’ math anxiety predicts STEM avoidance and underperformance throughout university, independently of math ability

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Daker ◽  
Sylvia U. Gattas ◽  
H. Moriah Sokolowski ◽  
Adam E. Green ◽  
Ian M. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Math Anxiety ◽  
First Year ◽  
Math Skills ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Math Ability ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Attitudes Toward Math ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Stem Outcomes

AbstractMath 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. However, past evidence supporting these claims is limited in important ways. Perhaps most crucially, it is possible that math anxiety predicts STEM outcomes merely as a proxy for poor math skills. Here, we tested the link between math anxiety and subsequent STEM outcomes by measuring math anxiety, math ability, and several covariates in 183 first-semester university students. We then tracked students’ STEM avoidance and achievement through four years at university via official academic transcripts. Results showed that math anxiety predicted both a reduction in how many STEM courses students took and, separately (i.e., controlling for one another), lower STEM grades. Crucially, these associations held after controlling for math ability (and other covariates). That math anxiety predicts math-related academic achievement independently of Math Ability suggests that, contrary to current thinking, math anxiety’s effects on academic performance likely operate via mechanisms other than negatively affecting math ability. Beyond this, we show evidence that math anxiety can account for associations between math ability and STEM outcomes, suggesting that past links between math ability and real-world outcomes may, in fact, be at least partially explainable by attitudes toward math. These findings provide clear impetus for developing and testing interventions that target math anxiety specifically and suggest that focusing on math ability without additional attention to math anxiety may fail to optimally boost STEM outcomes.

The effect of mobile games on math learning of third graders of elementary schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Shirkarami ◽  
Khadijeh Ali Abadi ◽  
Saeid Pourroostaei Ardakani ◽  
Shadi Azimi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
Math Learning ◽  
Mobile Games

scholarly journals Schools With Test-Based Promotion: Effects on Instructional Time Allocation and Student Learning in Grade 3

AERA Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233285842097916
Author(s):  
Yihua Hong ◽  
Guanglei Hong
Keyword(s):  
Time Allocation ◽  
Third Graders ◽  
Instructional Time ◽  
Math Learning ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Ability Levels ◽  
Reading And Math ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Notable Increase ◽  
Grade 3

This study is focused on the threat of retention associated with test-based promotion in Grade 3. Through analyzing the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Kindergarten Class of 1998–1999 data, we found that schools having such a policy apparently increased math instructional time but not reading instructional time in Grade 3. On average, the policy did not produce significant differences in third graders’ reading and math learning. However, there seemed to be a notable increase in the proportion of students who achieved an at or above-average proficiency level in Grade 3 math. In both reading and math, the test-based promotion seemingly benefited students at the average or lower than average ability levels. In contrast, there was no evidence that the policy had an impact on students at the two ends of the ability distribution. We discussed the implication of the findings for the current design and implementation of test-based promotion in early grades.

ARMath: Augmenting Everyday Life with Math Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seokbin Kang ◽  
Ekta Shokeen ◽  
Virginia L. Byrne ◽  
Leyla Norooz ◽  
Elizabeth Bonsignore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Math Learning
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