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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Rabovsky, Sarah J.; Silver, Daniel; Lazar-Wolfe, Rosalynn – AERA Open, 2021
Low-income students and students of color are faced with pervasively lower levels of opportunity to learn compared with their peers, creating unequal opportunities for educational success. Textbooks, which serve as the backbone of the curriculum in most mathematics classrooms, present a potentially powerful tool to help mitigate unequal…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Access to Education, Mathematics
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Gilbert, Melissa C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The author investigated the relationship between aspects of student motivation and performance on mathematical tasks varying in cognitive demand relevant to meeting the expectations of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSS-M). A sample of 479 primarily Latino middle school students completed established survey measures of…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Mathematics Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level