Closing the Gender Gap: Focus on Mathematics Anxiety.

Levine, Gavrielle

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ERIC Number: EJ522326

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Publication Date: 1995

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Closing the Gender Gap: Focus on Mathematics Anxiety.

Levine, Gavrielle

Contemporary Education, v67 n1 p42-45 Fall 1995

Before educators can address mathematics anxiety, they must recognize its presence and identify the complex factors that sustain it. The article discusses social and motivational factors that make it more prevalent among females, examines classroom interactions related to math anxiety, notes the consequences of math anxiety, and discusses teachers' roles. (SM)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Higher Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Education, Secondary School Students, Sex Bias, Teacher Expectations of Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Womens Education

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue title: "Diversity."