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Rebuilding Our Math Community, Jessica Feiwus

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This study investigates the attitudes of second grade students in mathematics. It looks into what research states about student attitudes and anxieties in school age children and different methods of keeping them positive. Over a two-month period, a teacher conducted a study in her classroom in New York City to assess change in student mathematical attitudes over time. A survey was given to her second grade students and changes were made in the classroom environment during math times, as well as within the TERC Investigations curriculum that the school follows. During and following the two-month study, two additional surveys were …