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When Am I Ever Going To Use This In The Real World? Cognitive Flexibility And Urban Adolescents' Negotiation Of The Value Of Mathematics, Jamaal Matthews
When Am I Ever Going To Use This In The Real World? Cognitive Flexibility And Urban Adolescents' Negotiation Of The Value Of Mathematics, Jamaal Matthews
Department of Educational Foundations Scholarship and Creative Works
Many adolescent learners have difficulty understanding the relevance of mathematics for their lives. This problem is particularly pernicious among Black and Latino adolescents who often face cultural stigma that can affect their perceived value of mathematics. The present study used concurrent nested mixed methods to explore this issue in 419 urban Black and Latino adolescents. Structured classroom observations, a computerized cognitive assessment, and surveys were used to examine how teacher math applications (TMAs) and adolescent cognitive flexibility interact to predict students' valuing of mathematics. From a subset of the larger sample (n = 37), semistructured qualitative interviews were used to …