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Marta K. Mielicki; Eric D. Wilkey; Daniel A. Scheibe; Charles J. Fitzsimmons; Pooja G. Sidney; Elien Bellon; Andrew D. Ribner; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Isabella Starling-Alves; Ilse Coolen; Daniel Ansari; Clarissa A. Thompson – Grantee Submission, 2023
Math performance is negatively related to math anxiety (MA), though MA may impact certain math skills more than others. We investigated whether the relation between MA and math performance is affected by task features, such as number type (e.g., fractions, whole numbers, percentages), number format (symbolic vs. nonsymbolic), and ratio component…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Numbers, Number Concepts, Computation
Clarissa A. Thompson; Jennifer M. Taber; Pooja G. Sidney; Charles J. Fitzsimmons; Marta K. Mielicki; Percival G. Matthews; Erika A. Schemmel; Nicolle Simonovic; Jeremy L. Foust; Pallavi Aurora; David J. Disabato; T. H. Stanley Seah; Lauren K. Schiller; Karin G. Coifman – Grantee Submission, 2021
At the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic, our interdisciplinary team hypothesized that a mathematical misconception--whole number bias (WNB)--contributed to beliefs that COVID-19 was less fatal than the flu. We created a brief online educational intervention for adults, leveraging evidence-based cognitive science…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Cognitive Processes, Logical Thinking