The majority (77%) of children with high mathematics anxiety have average or above-average mathematics performance¶

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q3 i? Of students with high MA across the whole sample, only 11% fell in the DD group and 12% in the DD+RD group; 77% had average or above-average mathematics performance. → Devine 2017

Evidence¶

Devine 2017¶

Devine, A., Hill, F., Carey, E., & Szűcs, D. (2017). Cognitive and Emotional Math Problems Largely Dissociate: Prevalence of Developmental Dyscalculia and Mathematics Anxiety. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000222

q3 · i? · associational · r2

In the same 1757-child cross-sectional sample, of students with high MA (scores at or above the 90th percentile), only 11% fell in the DD group and 12% had comorbid reading difficulty; "the majority of students with high MA (77%) had average or above average mathematics performance".

"Thus, the majority of students with high MA (77%) had average or above average mathematics performance (see Table 2A)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Children with developmental dyscalculia are twice as likely to have high mathematics anxiety as children with typical mathematics performance
• Children with MLD report higher learning mathematics anxiety than LA, TA, and HA peers, but not higher evaluation anxiety
• MA correlates negatively with mathematics performance in the whole sample (rs = -.30) but not within the DD or DD+RD groups — related
• Developmental dyscalculia prevalence was 5.6% in this UK sample, with no significant gender difference — related
• High achievers show the lowest math anxiety and MLD students the highest across achievement groups — related