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Math Anxiety, Understanding the Fear of Mathematics

significantly with mathematics achievement (Pajares & Miller, 1994), mathematics aptitude (Cooper & Robinson, 1991), and grades in...

Students with Learning Disabilities and the Teaching of Mathematics

In eight pages this paper discusses how to teach math to students who are learning disabled by such methods as mixed ability, whol...

4 Topics Summarized

In six pages four topics are discussed and include learning disabilities and educational interventions, psychological and educatio...

Learning Disabled Students and Mathematics

mathematics is strictly needed. By conducting such a study it was shown that learning-disabled students can indeed be taught such...

Inclusive Settings and Students of Low Academic Achievement

order to determine which students were at risk for being special education students. Those at the 34th percentile or lower were c...

Mathematics Teacher and Student Inspiration Jaime Escalante

High School, Tito Melean (Jagodzinski, 2001, p. 232). This teacher was in the habit of carrying around a long, thick, bone from th...

High School Students with Disabilities and Math Software

In five pages this paper discusses how for high school pupils who are disabled math software could improve word problem solving wi...

Mathematics and Computer Technology

has clearly developed in the mathematics classroom. Young (2000) considered the implications of computer and technological advanc...

Religion, Creation Science, True Science, and S.J. Gould

not be empirically tested, and therefore could not be classed as true science, the creationists shifted their ground. Instead of m...

Learning Enhancement and the Integration of Math and Literature

concrete, pictorial, graphical, and algebraic methods". THE USE OF QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS The researcher is the p...

Autobiographical Account of 'Math Anxiety'

was of number 1 to 100. I copied the full chart and was extremely embarrassed when I was a great deal slower than the rest of the ...

Math Assessment, Authentic Assessment Programs, and Inconsistencies

that the focus on academic test scores takes away from the overall intended purpose of the schools within society. Rothstein (2000...

Cohen's Equal Exchange Model and Teaching Math

many variables and a high level of research may be required. This may be at different levels as well as for different reference to...

Summarizing Four Cultural and Social Sciences' Articles by Littlejohn, Lont, Curtis, and Bakhtari

McBer and Company in 1980 (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pace-setting, and coaching) Bakhtari developed four h...

Importance of Mathematics and Statistics in Business

The mode calculates the statistic that occurs the most often, and therefore can be considered the most representative number. If w...

Math Lesson Design

of curriculum development model is utilised there is the need to engage the pupil and facilitate their learning as well as allow f...

Rational Theory, Science, and Political Science

the idea of introducing the idea of rational choice theory into the study of political science (Anonymous, 2000). Rational choice ...

Cynthia Arem on Anxiety About Math

text is logical and begins with a diagnostic process that aids the reader in determining whether or not he or she truly does suffe...

Multiple Intelligences, Behaviorist Approaches, and the Teaching of Math

approaches. For example, the humanist approach focuses on the affective side of learning or the feelings and emotional components ...

Stigler and Hiebert's The Teaching Gap

to them the previous Friday and goes over this one (Stigler and Hiebert, 1999). The teacher explains how to do one of the problems...

Eleventh Grade Mathematics Teachers in the State of New York

No Child Left Behind requires that students emerge from classes at increasing levels of proficiency, and the law provides a measur...

Streaming Grouping Australia

been the C class (Macqueen, 208). The students spent the day taking all their subjects in that class. At that time, it was believe...

Math Performance and Middle School Students

the views of educators and school psychologists regarding the importance of high-stakes testing and the implications for varied le...

Case Study Middle School Math

as they expected. They expect special education students to gain more than a months growth for each month of instruction with spec...

OVERVIEW OF MATHEMATICS HISTORY

however, early mathematics came right along with that. Richardson notes that Hieroglyphic numbers were introduced around 3,000 BCE...

Fixing California's Budget

years in the absence of current action. Voters rejected higher tax rates and totally new taxes in 2009; all that currently remain...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

Rote Memorization vs. Strategy Based Learning: A Research Study

is evidence that suggests that competence in basic operational skills is not always achieved (Ramos-Christian & Schleser, 2008). ...

Anxiety In Children In The Classroom

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

The History of Mathematics

1988). Another method is called the Ionic system where letters of the alphabet were used as digits (Jones & Bedient, 1988). With t...