Math anxiety is influenced by environmental, cognitive, and personal factors. Yet, the concurrent relationships between these factors have not been examined. To this end, the current study investigated how the math anxiety of 30 sixth graders is affected by: (a) mother's math anxiety and maternal behaviors (environmental factors); (b) children's arithmetic skills (cognitive factors); and (c) in...

The United States is currently not producing enough graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields to meet the demands of a technology-dependent society. Although there are many efforts in place to improve STEM education in the United States, most notably, President Obama’s Educate to Innovate campaign, these efforts focus mostly on innovating the teaching of math content...

Sixty-one high-math-anxious persons and sixty-one low-math-anxious persons completed a modified working memory capacity task, designed to measure working memory capacity under a dysfunctional math-related context and working memory capacity under a valence-neutral context. Participants were required to perform simple tasks with emotionally benign material (i.e., lists of letters) over short int...

Background The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of sleep pattern modification on reducing the math learning disorder in the sixth-grade elementary school students in the Kerman city, Iran. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out using a semi-empirical, pre-, and post-survey method. A control group and sample pop...

Math anxiety has been defined as unpleasant feelings of tension and anxiety that hinder the ability to deal with numbers and math in a variety of situations. Although many studies have looked at situational and demographic factors associated with math anxiety, little research has looked at the self-reported experiences with math that are associated with math anxiety. The present study used a mi...

In a recent paper [7] the author considered the family of parametrized Thue equations

Steganographie ist eine Technik zur vertraulichen Kommunikation. Ihre Sicherheit definiert sich über das Unvermögen des Angreifers, die Existenz einer vertraulichen Kommunikation nachzuweisen. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, einige Analysemuster für Schwachstellen am Beispiel einer veröffentlichten Spreizspektrummethode für Steganographie in Audiomedien (Nutzinger und Wurzer, ARES 2011) vorzustell...

Using a novel Wintner-type formulation of the classical Peano’s existence theorem [Math. Ann. 37 (1890), 182-228], we enhance Ważewski’s result on invertibility of maps defined on closed balls [Ann. Soc. Pol. Math. 20 (1947), 81-125] securing the size of the domain of invertibility that agrees with the bounds derived by John [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 21 (1968), 77-110] and Sotomayor [Z. Angew. Ma...

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt eine Evaluation über einen Zeitraum von mehreren Jahren, die das Nutzungsverhalten, die Funktionalität und Usability von Vorlesungsaufzeichnungen aus der Sicht von Studierenden im Fach Informatik untersuchte. Die Ergebnisse der Auswertungen bestätigen bisherige Vermutungen über den Mehrwert von Vorlesungsaufzeichnungen, zeigen aber auch, welche Funktionalitäten bzw. Me...

Das Pilotprojekt „Virtuelles Softwareprojekt“ ermöglicht Osnabrücker Studierenden erstmals, hochschulübergreifend an der in Oldenburg durchgeführten Lehrveranstaltung „Softwareprojekt“ teilzunehmen. Neue Medien wie beispielsweise Videokonferenzsysteme werden eingesetzt, um die Veranstaltung über die reine Präsenzlehre hinaus durchführen zu können. Ein wesentliches Ziel des Projektes ist neben d...