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Relationship of Attitudes Toward Mathematics, School, and Teachers to Mathematics Achievement

Description: The present study was designed to investigate the interrelationships of various school-related attitudes and mathematics achievement in a sample of 104 fifth-grade students. A version of the Semantic Differential was used to assess student attitudes toward school, mathematics, teachers, and mathematics teachers. Achievement in mathematics was measured using the Wide Range Achievement Test and classroom grade in mathematics. Higher correlations between the attitude and achievement variables were… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Neumann, Karl F.
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Performance on Selected Mathematics and Reading Assessment Tests as Predictors of Achievement in Remedial Mathematics

Description: The problem of this study was performance on selected mathematics and reading assessment tests as predictors of achievement in remedial mathematics. The purpose of the study was twofold. The first was to determine the internal consistency of a locally developed remedial mathematics placement test and the mathematics section of the Pre-TASP Test. The second was to determine the predictive validity of performance on (a) the local remedial mathematics placement test, (b) the mathematics section of… more
Date: December 1990
Creator: Branum, Barbara K. (Barbara Kay)
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Mathematics Anxiety and Mathematics Self-efficacy in Relation to Medication Calculation Performance in Nurses

Description: The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the relationships that exist between mathematics anxiety and nurse self-efficacy for mathematics, and the medication calculation performance of acute care nurses. This research used a quantitative correlational research design and involved a sample of 84 acute care nurses, LVNs and RNs, from a suburban private hospital. the participants filled out a Mathematics Anxiety Scale, a Nurse Self-Efficacy for Mathematics Scale and also completed a 20… more
Date: May 2012
Creator: Melius, Joyce
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[Mathematics and string theory]

Description: Work on this grant was centered on connections between non- commutative geometry and physics. Topics covered included: cyclic cohomology, non-commutative manifolds, index theory, reflection positivity, space quantization, quantum groups, number theory, etc.
Date: January 1, 1993
Creator: Jaffe, A. & Yau, Shing-Tung.
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Mathematics and string theory

Description: The continuation of the collaboration with Liu and Lian on the calculation of the II A model opened up the possibility to understand calculations for higher genus curves also; many detailed calculations were carried out. They provided evidence that the method is powerful enough to calculate GW invariants in many cases. Local mirror symmetry was worked out with Chiang, Klemm, and Zaslow; it is consistent with physics intuition. Work was carried out to advance the ideas of Stroninger-Yau-Zaslow's… more
Date: November 25, 2002
Creator: Yau, Shing-Tung
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Mathematics of Intermittent Irradiation

Description: Initiation of reactions by intermittent irradiation is frequently encountered in physical, chemical, and biological systems. Mathematicai expressions for transient and steady state concentrations of reactive species in these systems are useful for predicting performance and for research purposes. A general method of formulation of the intermittent irradiation problem is presented herein, and illustrative solutions are obtained for radioactive decay chains and for the rotating sector method. 20 … more
Date: October 1, 1962
Creator: Hill, F.B.
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(Mathematics and string theory)

Description: Over the past year our research activities concentrated around: (1) non-commutative differential geometry and its connections with quantum physics and (2) 2-dimensional(super) conformal quantum field theories and related non-linear {sigma}-models. This paper discusses these topics.
Date: January 1, 1992
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Teachers' Use of Children's Literature, Mathematics Manipulatives, and Scaffolding to Improve Preschool Mathematics Achievement: Does It Work?

Description: The primary purpose of this study was to determine if the implementation of an intervention involving teachers' use of children's literature, related storybook manipulatives, and a scaffolding (LMS) approach to learning would improve preschool children's mathematics test scores. Additionally, the LMS approach was examined to determine whether teachers' perceptions of their effectiveness in mathematics instruction changed from the beginning to the end of the study. The subjects of the study inc… more
Date: December 2000
Creator: Bennett, Tisha L.
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The Effectiveness of a Guided Discovery Method of Teaching in a College Mathematics Course for Non-Mathematics and Non-Science Majors

Description: The purpose of this study was to ascertain the value, as determined by student achievement, of using a discovery method of teaching mathematics in a college freshman mathematics course for non-mathematics and non-science majors.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Reimer, Dennis D., 1940-
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The Effects of English Immersion Mathematics Classes on the Mathematics Achievement and Aspiration of Eighth-Grade Spanish-Speaking LEP Students

Description: This research grew from concerns relative to the mathematical performance of Spanish-speaking limited English proficient (LEP) public school students. This investigation studied the effects of the sheltered mathematics class on eighth-grade Spanish-speaking LEP students with regard to mathematical achievement, attitudes toward mathematics, the dropout rate, and the number of math credits earned in high school. The enrollment of a sheltered mathematics class was limited to LEP students. The purp… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Hunt, Beverly Thornhill
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Distributed mathematics in a heterogeneous environment

Description: The advent of sophisticated window and operating system tools during the past several years has made it possible to provide user interfaces that are not as card- or line-oriented as previous interfaces. In addition, networking software has made it possible to distribute work among several computers so that optimal use is made of existing facilities. The computer Research and Application Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses these tools to access, control, and animate solutions to mathema… more
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Campbell, J.R.
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National Mathematics Advisory Panel

Description: The U.S. Department of Education, in partnership with the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences, hosted the first National Math Panel Forum on October 6-7, 2008. This page documents the Forum activities, which brought together various organizations and other interested parties.
Date: 2008
Creator: National Mathematics Advisory Panel
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Experimental Mathematics and Computational Statistics

Description: The field of statistics has long been noted for techniques to detect patterns and regularities in numerical data. In this article we explore connections between statistics and the emerging field of 'experimental mathematics'. These includes both applications of experimental mathematics in statistics, as well as statistical methods applied to computational mathematics.
Date: April 30, 2009
Creator: Bailey, David H. & Borwein, Jonathan M.
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Experimental Mathematics and Mathematical Physics

Description: One of the most effective techniques of experimental mathematics is to compute mathematical entities such as integrals, series or limits to high precision, then attempt to recognize the resulting numerical values. Recently these techniques have been applied with great success to problems in mathematical physics. Notable among these applications are the identification of some key multi-dimensional integrals that arise in Ising theory, quantum field theory and in magnetic spin theory.
Date: June 26, 2009
Creator: Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan M.; Broadhurst, David & Zudilin, Wadim
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Ten Problems in Experimental Mathematics

Description: This article was stimulated by the recent SIAM ''100 DigitChallenge'' of Nick Trefethen, beautifully described in a recent book. Indeed, these ten numeric challenge problems are also listed in a recent book by two of present authors, where they are followed by the ten symbolic/numeric challenge problems that are discussed in this article. Our intent was to present ten problems that are characteristic of the sorts of problems that commonly arise in ''experimental mathematics''. The challenge in … more
Date: September 30, 2004
Creator: Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan M.; Kapoor, Vishaal & Weisstein, Eric
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Applied mathematics of chaotic systems

Description: This is the final report of a three-year, Laboratory-Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The objectives of the project were to develop new mathematical techniques for describing chaotic systems and for reexpressing them in forms that can be solved analytically and computationally. The authors focused on global bifurcation analysis of rigid body motion in an ideal incompressible fluid and on an analytical technique for the exact solution… more
Date: July 1, 1996
Creator: Jen, E.; Alber, M.; Camassa, R.; Choi, W.; Crutchfield, J.; Holm, D. et al.
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Lectures on Modular Forms

Description: Report consisting of an expository account of the theory of modular forms and its application to number theory and analysis.
Date: 1969
Creator: Lehner, J. (Joseph), 1912-
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A comparison of the effects of two mathematics programs upon selected fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade remedial mathematics students

Description: The problem with which this investigation was concerned is that of determining whether remedial mathematics students who receive individualized attention in small groups with many special materials would gain more knowledge in the areas of computation, concepts, problem solving, and total composite mathematics than would remedial mathematics students taught as sub-groups of regular mathematics classes.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Blankenship, William Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries
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