The potential of these teachers to impact girls' performance has important consequences. Teachers' anxiety might undermine female students' confidence in learning mathematics and also may decrease ...

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Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math ...

The study found that when elementary school teachers, who are primarily female, displayed a high level of anxiety about math, that skittishness was transmitted to their female students.

Having a female teacher who is anxious about math might reinforce the stereotype that boys are better at math than girls. Young girls might learn to fear math from the women who are their earliest ...

New research suggests that female teachers' comfort with math particularly affects their female students.

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