EBSCOhost: Girls and mathematics -- A "hopeless" issue? A control-value approach to gender differences in emotions towards mathematics - 1 views
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Michelle O on 03 Nov 10Frenzel, Anne C., Reinhard Pekrun, and Thomas Goetz. "Girls and mathematics -- A "hopeless" issue? A control-value approach to gender differences in emotions towards mathematics." European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE (Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada) 22.4 (2007): 497-514. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. This article is about how girls in 5th grade understand math the same way as boys but they have more emotions about it. Girls have less enjoyment and pride compared to boys. They have more anxiety, hopelessness and shame when it comes to math. The article goes into why this is true and there are charts.