Students from families with little interest in math benefit more from a school intervention program that aims at increasing math motivation than do students whose parents regard math as important. A ...

One of the responsibilities of this blog is to troll for interesting or useful research articles about student motivation. This morning, I found one while trolling on the American Educational Research ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of 45 studies found gamification has a small-to-moderate positive effect on student motivation in mathematics at secondary and higher education levels. Most ...

Experiencing math anxiety—nervousness and discomfort in relation to math—impairs math performance for some students, but new research shows that it's linked with improved performance for others, at ...

The ultimate motivator for kids to do their best in math isn't the promise of rewards or desire to make a parent proud, recent research reveals. For 55% of kids, it's proving to themselves that "they ...

The t-shirt is yellow, 100% cotton and meant for “everyday wear”. Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...

It’s fair to say maths is not everyone’s favourite subject. In fact, for many people, the feelings of tension and anxiety that arise when trying to solve a mathematical problem can be all consuming.

We typically think of math anxiety as universally bad for math learning, but a team of scholars have now discovered that the relationship between math anxiety and learning is much more complex. Based ...

This encouraging response may actually do more harm than good to children’s math performance, according to a new study by the University of Georgia. Co-conducted by Michael Barger, an assistant ...

Experiencing math anxiety -- nervousness and discomfort in relation to math -- impairs math performance for some students, but new research shows that it's linked with improved performance for others, ...