Research Article
Attitudes to Mathematics in Primary School Children
Table 1
Maths performance and attitude scores by year group and gender.
| | Year group | Gender | BAS Basic Number Skills standard score | Self-rating | Liking | (Non-)Anxiety | (Non-)Unhappiness |
| | Year 3 | Boys () | 109.14 (13.42) | 28.9 (4.31) | 25.62 (7.89) | 23.19 (7.57) | 22.71 (4.36) | | Girls () | 112.65 (12.8) | 27.26 (4.46) | 24.43 (5.56) | 23.0 (6.33) | 21.04 (5.23) | | Total year 3 () | | 110.98 (13.07) | 28.04 (4.42) | 25.0 (6.72) | 23.09 (6.87) | 21.84 (4.86) | | Year 5 | Boys () | 120.52 (13.61) | 29.05 (4.76) | 24.62 (8.52) | 23.05 (4.86) | 21.00 (4.86) | | Girls () | 115.71 (16.59) | 25.75 (5.56) | 24.46 (5.73) | 23.46 (6.21) | 19.71 (5.7) | | Total year 5 ( | | 117.96 (15.29) | 27.29 (5.4) | 24.53 (7.08) | 23.27 (5.57) | 20.31 (5.3) | | | Total boys () | 114.83 (14.54) | 28.98 (5.56) | 25.12 (8.12) | 23.11 (6.28) | 21.86 (4.64) | | | Total girls () | 114.21 (14.78) | 26.49 (5.06) | 24.45 (5.58) | 23.23 (6.21) | 20.36 (5.46) | | Total () | | 114.51 (14.59) | 27.66 (4.93) | 24.76 (6.87) | 23.18 (6.21) | 21.07 (5.11) |
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Means are given with standard deviations in brackets.
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