Girls and Boys react different to math anxiety

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A new study shows that although boys and girls showed more or less equal levels of math anxiety and performed similarly at the arithmetic task, correlation analyses showed that only in girls, math anxiety significantly correlated with math performance. Analyses investigating if math anxiety moderated the effect of gender and grade on math performance revealed significant differences between boys and girls. Higher levels of math anxiety only significantly and negatively moderated math performance in girls, with the greatest effect observed in 2nd grade girls.

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Research improves learning for pre schoolers

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Interesting research into the mathematical abilities of people with Williams syndrome, Down syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Language Disorder has led to finding a more effective way to teach mathematical abilities to pre-schoolers.

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Learning disability or personality?

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There are a lot of reasons kids may not grasp certain subjects in school. The cause could be a specific learning disorder, like dyslexia in reading or dyscalculia in math. But, what if it may also all boil down to their personality?

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It’s the numbersense!

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Interesting research to find out if a failing numbersense system is the cause that Dyscalculics have trouble assessing the right quantities when size is varied or if it is a general problem with not being able to discard irrelevant information.

The researchers confirmed, it is probably the numbersense system so that means that looking at non numerical clues may help to cope with a less precise numbersense system.

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