Mathematics anxiety is a pervasive issue in education that requires attention from both
educators and researchers to help students reach their full academic potential. This review …

The successful learning and performance of mathematics relies on a range of individual,
social and educational factors. Recent research suggests that executive function skills …

Working memory refers to a mental workspace, involved in controlling, regulating, and
actively maintaining relevant information to accomplish complex cognitive tasks (eg …

Individuals with high math anxiety demonstrated smaller working memory spans, especially
when assessed with a computation-based span task. This reduced working memory …

This study investigated dimensions of executive functioning in 8‐to 13‐year‐old children.
Three tasks from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), two …

This longitudinal study explored the importance of kindergarten measures of phonological
awareness, working memory, and quantity–number competencies (QNC) for predicting …

This article reports results of a four-year longitudinal study that investigated the impact of
specific and non-specific precursors on mathematical school achievement. Preschool …

Working memory impairments in children with difficulties in arithmetic have previously been
investigated using questionable selection techniques and control groups, leading to …

The primary purpose of this longitudinal correlational study was to examine relations
between phonological processing abilities and emerging individual differences in math …

Three experiments examined interference effects in concurrent temporal and nontemporal
tasks. The timing task in each experiment required subjects to generate a series of 2-or 5 …