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Math anxiety is also commonly known by which other name?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced the term mathemaphobia for phobia-like feelings about mathematics?Read the answer and worked solution →The academic study of math anxiety goes back as far as which decade?Read the answer and worked solution →In which year was the first math anxiety measurement scale developed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scale, introduced by Richardson and Suinn, rates a person's level of math anxiety?Read the answer and worked solution →The Fennema-Sherman scales (FSMAS) measure which aspect of mathematics learning?Read the answer and worked solution →A person with math anxiety does not necessarily lack what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which mental resource is thought to be hurt by math anxiety, lowering achievement?Read the answer and worked solution →In a math-anxious learner, much working memory space is taken up by what?Read the answer and worked solution →How are high math anxiety and achievement related?Read the answer and worked solution →Which school practice tends to raise anxiety in math-anxious pupils?Read the answer and worked solution →High math anxiety is linked to scores 34 points lower, equal to about how much schooling?Read the answer and worked solution →How does the influence of math anxiety on performance change as children grow?Read the answer and worked solution →Hembree (1990) ran a meta-analysis of how many studies on math anxiety?Read the answer and worked solution →Hembree suggested math anxiety is directly connected with which behaviour?Read the answer and worked solution →A Cambridge study found what share of highly maths-anxious children were normal to high achievers?Read the answer and worked solution →Maths anxiety has also been linked to which personality trait?Read the answer and worked solution →In Ashcraft's rising-difficulty test, anxiety hurt accuracy most on which part?Read the answer and worked solution →Beilock's brain scans found the math-anxiety region overlaps one that registers what?Read the answer and worked solution →Beilock's group found maths anxiety is triggered mainly by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Parents in Taiwan and Japan stress what as the key to school success?Read the answer and worked solution →People with a growth mindset believe intellectual ability can do what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Beller and Gafni's study, boys of which age scored higher in 17 of 20 countries?Read the answer and worked solution →Women performed worse than men when the problems were described as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which type of maths anxiety was higher in girls than boys in Szczygiel's study?Read the answer and worked solution →Goulding, Rowland and Barber linked weak teacher subject knowledge to trouble with what?Read the answer and worked solution →Teachers can ease maths anxiety by stressing what over right or wrong answers?Read the answer and worked solution →Eugene Geist recommends focusing on what rather than only the right answer?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is an NCTM suggestion for preventing maths anxiety?Read the answer and worked solution →Hackworth suggests building maths confidence through which kind of experience?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Math anxiety is also commonly known by which other name?

  1. Number blindness
  2. Digit fatigue
  3. Math phobia
  4. Sum aversion
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Correct answer: C. Math phobia

1. Math anxiety is a feeling of tension that interferes with working with numbers. 2. It is also called math phobia, because the feelings resemble a phobia. 3. The other names are not terms used for this condition. _Source: Wikipedia, Mathematical anxiety, Lead section_

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Who introduced the term mathemaphobia for phobia-like feelings about mathematics?

  1. Frank Richardson
  2. Mary Fides Gough
  3. Mark H. Ashcraft
  4. Sian Beilock
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Correct answer: B. Mary Fides Gough

1. The academic study of math anxiety goes back to the 1950s. 2. Mary Fides Gough coined mathemaphobia then; Richardson built a rating scale, Ashcraft defined the anxiety, and Beilock used brain scans later. 3. So the term belongs to Gough. _Source: Wikipedia, Mathematical anxiety, History_

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The academic study of math anxiety goes back as far as which decade?

  1. 1920s
  2. 1950s
  3. 1980s
  4. 2000s
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Correct answer: B. 1950s

1. Early work on math anxiety is dated to the 1950s. 2. The 1920s are too early, and the 1980s and 2000s are far too late for its origin. 3. The first measurement scale came later, in 1972. _Source: Wikipedia, Mathematical anxiety, History_

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