Taking the conference motto as a theme, this papers examines the good, the bad, and the ugly bits of TEX’s math typesetting engine and the related topic of math fonts. Unlike previous discussions of math fonts, which have often focussed on glyph sets and font encodings, this paper concentrates on the technical requirements for math fonts, trying to clarify what makes implementing math fonts so ...

Educators assume that students are motivated to retain what they are taught. Yet, students commonly report that they forget most of what they learn, especially in mathematics. In the current study I ask whether students may be motivated to forget mathematics because of academic experiences threaten the self-perceptions they are committed to maintaining. Using a large dataset of 1st and 2nd grad...

We report on a longitudinal study designed to assess possible sex differences in math achievement, math ability, and math-related tasks during the primary school age years. Participants included over 200 children from one public school district. Annual assessments included measures of math ability, math calculation achievement scores, rapid naming and decoding tasks, visual perception tests, vi...

in this paper, some recent results established by marin borcut [m. borcut, tripled fixed point theorems for monotone mappings in partially ordered metric spaces, carpathian j. math. 28, 2 (2012), 207--214] and [m. borcut, tripled coincidence theorems for monotone mappings in partially ordered metric spaces, creat. math. inform. 21, 2 (2012), 135--142] are generalized and improved, with much sho...

Text categorization has been a popular research topic for years and has become more or less a practical technology. However, there exists little research on math topic classification. Math documents contain both textual data and math expressions. The text and math can be considered as two related but different views of a math document. The goal of online math topic classification is to automati...

Although behavioral difficulties are well documented in reading disabilities, little is known about the relationship between math ability and internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Here, we use standardized measures to investigate the relation among early math ability, math anxiety, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a group of 366 second and third graders. Math achievement wa...

the current study intended to investigate the effectiveness of cooperative learning on math anxiety, attitude toward mathematics, and academic achievement of female high school students. the study method was experimental and was conducted by pretest-posttest design with the control group. the population included all female high school students (second year) who were studying experimental scienc...

Deficits in basic numerical abilities have been investigated repeatedly as potential risk factors of math anxiety. Previous research suggested that also a deficient approximate number system (ANS), which is discussed as being the foundation for later math abilities, underlies math anxiety. However, these studies examined this hypothesis by investigating ANS acuity using a symbolic number compar...

We assessed math anxiety in 6ththrough 12th-grade children (N = 564) as part of a comprehensive longitudinal investigation of children's beliefs, attitudes, and values concerning mathematics. Confirmatory factor analyses provided evidence for two components of math anxiety, a negative affective reactions component and a cognitive component. The affective component of math anxiety related more s...