A Study of Attitudes Toward Mathematics of Children Around the World

question 23

Multiple Choice

A study of attitudes toward mathematics of children around the world showed that

• A) children tend to evaluate mathematics as difficult and not very interesting.
• B) children in Europe evaluated mathematics as interesting, but students in the U. S. did not.
• C) children in Asia evaluated mathematics as not difficult but not interesting.
• D) younger children gave more negative evaluations than older children and adolescents.

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