Math anxiety: Past research, promising interventions, and a new interpretation framework

G Ramirez, ST Shaw, EA Maloney - Educational psychologist, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Mathematics anxiety is a pervasive issue in education that requires attention from both
educators and researchers to help students reach their full academic potential. This review …

Math performance and academic anxiety forms, from sociodemographic to cognitive aspects: A meta-analysis on 906,311 participants

S Caviola, E Toffalini, D Giofrè, JM Ruiz… - Educational Psychology …, 2022 - Springer
The relationship between anxiety and mathematics has often been investigated in the
literature. Different forms of anxiety have been evaluated, with math anxiety (MA) and test …

The gender-equality paradox in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education

G Stoet, DC Geary - Psychological science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The underrepresentation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) fields is a continual concern for social scientists and policymakers …

Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox

T Breda, E Jouini, C Napp… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The so-called “gender-equality paradox” is the fact that gender segregation across
occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some …

The relation between mathematics anxiety and mathematics performance among school-aged students: A meta-analysis

JM Namkung, P Peng, X Lin - Review of Educational …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the relation between mathematics anxiety
(MA) and mathematics performance among school-aged students, and to identify potential …

The math anxiety-performance link: A global phenomenon

AE Foley, JB Herts, F Borgonovi… - Current directions in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Demand for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professionals is on
the rise worldwide. To effectively meet this demand, many governments and private …

The stereotype that girls lack talent: A worldwide investigation

C Napp, T Breda - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Recent research has shown that there exist gender stereotypes that portray men as more
brilliant or inherently talented than women. We provide a large-scale multinational …

Girls' comparative advantage in reading can largely explain the gender gap in math-related fields

T Breda, C Napp - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Gender differences in math performance are now small in developed countries and they
cannot explain on their own the strong underrepresentation of women in math-related fields …

Development of children's math attitudes: Gender differences, key socializers, and intervention approaches

SC Levine, N Pantoja - Developmental Review, 2021 - Elsevier
The relation of various math attitudes to math achievement has been extensively studied in
adolescents and adults. Recently, researchers have begun to examine the math attitude …

Do games reduce maths anxiety? A meta-analysis

P Dondio, V Gusev, M Rocha - Computers & Education, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present the first meta-analysis of the efficacy of game-based interventions
on reducing students' levels of maths anxiety. After searching for randomised studies …