Not All Elementary School Teachers Are Scared of Math

Abstract: Teachers are strong role models for their pupils, especially at the beginning of education. This also holds true for math: If teachers feel anxious about math, the consequences on the mathematical education of their pupils is detrimental. Previous studies have shown that (future) elementary school teachers have higher levels of math anxiety than most people studying other subjects. Here, we set out to conceptually replicate these findings (e.g., meta-analysis by Hembree, 1990, https://doi.org/10.2307/749455) by comparing math anxiety levels of pre-service and in-service German and Belgian elementary school teachers to a reference group of German university students from various fields of study. Moreover, we questioned this finding by asking which elementary school teachers experience math anxiety, considering gender, specialization, and experience, and investigated how math anxiety relates to teaching attitudes towards math. We replicated the previous finding by showing that female.... https://jnc.psychopen.eu/index.php/jnc/article/view/6063

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Not All Elementary School Teachers Are Scared of Math ; volume:7 ; number:3 ; day:30 ; month:11 ; year:2021 ; Journal of numerical cognition ; 7, Heft 3 (30.11.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Artemenko, Christina ; Masson, Nicolas ; Georges, Carrie ; Nuerk, Hans-Christoph ; Cipora, Krzysztof

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jnc.6063
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022010804115223642238
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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