Looks like Tiger Mom had it half-right: Motivation to work hard and good study techniques, not IQ, lead to better math skills, a new study shows. But there's a catch: The findings, published this ...

Research and classroom experiences suggest that gamification—using points, leaderboards, and interactive digital activities—can enhance motivation and engagement in mathematics. Studies across middle, ...

Students' perceptions of their mathematical identity can provide insight into why some lose motivation or underperform in math. "The background of the research project MATHMot is that we know less ...

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 ...

New York: If you value math, a little nervousness in relation to math problems may actually improve your performance, suggests new research. The researchers found that a moderate level of math anxiety ...

'You're so smart!' -- This encouraging response may actually do more harm than good to children's math performance, according to a new study. The study found that encouraging children with responses ...

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 ...

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 ...

You don’t have to be born with math skills; solving problems is a matter of studying and motivation. That may not seem like such a surprise, but it’s become easy to say ‘I just can’t do math.’ While ...

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 ...